The Search Poem by Godfrey Morris

This is a story of a girl
Who knew love and desired
All of it.

She sought love but found
Fractured pieces.

From her father she had neither
She sought it from a mother
But could ask no further.
She sought it from a brother,
A sisterly touch
This void she could not fill.

She sought it from a stranger
And still was no good will.

So as she grew her flowers bloomed.
This love she gave freely
To every sick-heartred soul
The poor, the bastards and
The needy who desired her touch

And still her love was crushed

Then one precious day
A son was borne to her
And all her Joys had come
Her work at last was done

This is a story of a girl
Who knew love and desire love;
Who found love,
Then died.