Words

 

 

What We Seek

 

What we seek is all around us.

 

What we seek is in the poem,

the painting, the flower.

 

What we seek evaporates when

We turn our heads to look at it.

 

What we seek appears when we do not try to find it

And vanishes when we go looking.

 

What we seek is inside;

It has been there all along.