We Seek Each Other

We Seek Each Other

  A Valentine's Poem

For years I sought someone

Wars came and went

Stocks rose and plunged

Jobs were here and there

Books and periodicals informed

-- And I looked, and I saw, and my heart was pulled but my eyes did not rest.

Technology advanced

Computers were shared

An Internet flourished

There were more ways to meet the people we sought

I continued to seek after a suitable person

To share my life and dreams

I  moved from here to there

I tried to stay social, to stay clean, to be alert,

to be active, so that I would not miss who I sought

--in my thoughts, my prayers

Meanwhile,  she was also about, to and fro

She moved and met and looked and even smelled, yes, sniffed for that one...

It took some time, a drive across the deserts for me, trekking across country for her:

Cities, suburbs, camp outs, rivers, lakes, seas and mountains, cabins and dance halls

One night we saw each other

I spoke to my mother twenty-four hundred miles away, soon after

I told her I met someone, albeit briefly

But we met again, and again, and again

We sought each other

Now eighteen years later, we still do

Sometimes she seeks me, or I her

But we still, always seek each other out

"How are you?" 

"Not bad. You?"

She is who I sought since youth

Since then, since I can remember

She is the someone whom I seek

in my dreams

And lucky me-- I find her!