Somehow it seems I’ve missed
a chapter in this great book of life
one that tells how to give completely
how to trust and love with no end

I’ve flipped the dog-eared pages
searched for it a hundred times
discovered nothing but loneliness
blown in a lost sea of jumbled words

I’ve waded through coffee stains
stumbled over cookie crumbs
while ink smudges and tattered fingertips
remain the only evidence of my quest

Still I keep searching page by page
knowing though it wasn’t today
someday I will unlock the secret passage
that missing chapter in my book of life

© Janelle Smith, Feb 2009