Howard F. Stein’s most recent poem to appear here was “Keys” (August 2018). 

Unanswered Questions
By Howard F. Stein    

Is impossible
ever possible?
Shall I renounce
hope that finding
will ever be matched
by being found?

I wander the earth
seeking you.
If I find you,
will your eyes
turn away from mine,
just when I thought
they had met?
If I find you,
will I be also found?