Bio-Hunt

Ever since I was told

I felt a vague emptiness

A nagging, gnawing longing

Why was I left in the cold?

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My life has been good

Raised by loving parents

Treated with affection and fairness

From toddler to adulthood

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Yet now I know the truth

How I was l abandoned as a babe

Left at a fire station

By an anonymous youth

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So now I hunt and peck

Searching from site to page

Looking for a hint … a reason

It’s making me a wreck

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Day after day for weeks on end

I searched papers and web

Until the day I found her

When to a story my hunt did wend

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My adoptive parents were hurt

But they tried to be supportive

Had they told me years back

Perhaps I wouldn’t have been so curt

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I wanted to meet her …

Reluctantly she agreed

She only wanted money

Her face a teary blur

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I asked her why

She only shrugged

Saying she was a child herself

Then she let out a sigh

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I gave her a twenty for food

Left feeling unsatisfied, angry

But my parents gave me a hug

Welcoming me back to the brood

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My months long hunt has ended

Not sorry I embarked on the quest

But sometimes I still wonder

Where her addictive path wended