Searching For the Truth
searching for the truth
a life-long struggle
of who am I
a lost child wanting
to know her roots
substitute parents
who adopted me
love me enough to let
me go so I can unlock
the vault of many secrets
which holds the keys
to my heart and soul
dead-end trails of uncertainty,
bureaucratic brick walls
which bruised my very being,
exhaustion would wear me down
to the point of giving up
and accepting one part of my
life a mystery never to be told
and taken to a grave buried forever,
never shared with the living,
one day a persistent feeling came
over me----a feeling of perseverance
that my truth will be found
the monumental day came when there
was a knock on my door in which
the truth was discovered----a middle-aged
couple stood at my doorstep looking
straight at me and I knew who they were
immediately---my parents from thirty
years ago---the ones who gave me up,
we are three strangers standing awkwardly
at the front door searching for the
truth which was eventually found
as the missing biological link
now, one stone of my life is unturned
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