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Eleanor Dent

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Seekers

I sought you on the mountain
but you were not acquainted with its heights.
I sought you in the forest
but you had never reached into its depths.
I sought you in the torrent
but you had not been cleansed beneath its flood.
I sought you in the ocean
but you preferred the tame blue fettered pool.

I sought her in the nightclubs
but she was not among the harems there.
I sought her in the health clubs
but she preferred the healing of the air.
I sought her on the websites
but she disdained the two-dimension stare.
I sought her in the bar-rooms
but she was not addicted to despair.

He found her in a notebook
that someone had discarded on the Tube
as being of no value.
He found her in a fable
that she had never shown to any other
for fear of disappointment.
She found him lost in wonder
that he had never known of her existence
until her words had found him.

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