Something's Missing

I looked for you in fairytales and stories from my childhood; I wandered through the breezy fields because I thought I should. I hunted through the Amazon and saw amazing creatures; But answers were withheld from them, they wouldn’t be my teacher. Then finally I found a spot where I thought you would live; In friendship and in family, but I could not forgive. And on occasion, I thought I found you lying in my bed; I even thought I married you, but that’s a tear I shed. I gave up on the search for quite some time before that day; So angered at the people in my life that went astray. Then all at once, with just one glance, you flooded to my eyes; And though it took a minute you were hard to recognize. That’s when a realization struck that I could not believe; I searched the whole world up and down, and you were here in me.