The loupe

 # TSL Photo prompt 5 napowrimo ( Reena Prasad)

Where is he?

I’m looking everywhere 

I can’t see him

From the deep snows of Siberia

To the lush jungles of Africa

I try to trace his journey

On the map he gave me

Told me I could follow him

But always he’s not there.

I receive a cryptic card

Showing some landscape

Or famous monument 

I come here sit on the top of the globe

To try to work it out

And when I pinpoint the place,

That is when I’m lucky,

I get my faithful loupe

And scan the map

I follow the roads, 

I follow the rivers,

I cross the oceans and deserts 

Still he isn’t there, 

Again I have missed him.

The world is round 

He told me so

So what comes out

Comes back in

I’ll wait here

For he’s sure to come home ! 

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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