Art: The Seeker by Mike Foldhazi

Poem: Judith A. Lloyd

Seeking the seeker

seeking

losing that thing that defined me

waiting to see now who i will be

snippets of past lives 

preserved like water marks on 

fragile velum

flow through my mind

reminding me of who i 

once was

seeking

before there was all the trauma and

the joy, yes the joy

was it my life i was living or yours?

all i know is that life wasn’t mine

when i look at myself now

and i look at myself then

i don’t see the same me

and so i hover in the middle ground

not really moving on

simply stalling

seeking

touch has a memory and

love but a visitor

and for a moment i saw something

that could have been

mislaid memories and 

misplanted hopes

life goes and who

will i be this time 

remains to be seen

seeking

Judith A. Lloyd

2025