Do you ever feel as if
a word
is playing
hide and
seek
with
you
hiding behind corners of all it is not
tricking your mind into finding
the wrong word
again
and
again
and –
At last so weary from the search
you give up
only to find it,
hours after you called off the search party,
sitting on the couch like it was there
in plain sight
all along
like a cat who
hides
from an open carrier
even when you check every space, twice,
and again
so you give up the hunt and out she comes
snuggling up against you as if
she had never
been
hiding
