Still looking (Prompt 14)

I have
from time to time
misplaced
my faith

in searching I
reflexively
pat my pockets like
making sure I
leave home with
wallet, keys

not trivializing the
nature of
my faith

reminiscent of
school days
searching
lost and found box
for missing mitten
my mother
scolded me for
losing
sending me
to sulk
in my room

for I knew
then as now
I could
never
find what I
had lost
in some shady
stray box

– Mark L. Lucker
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