In 19Now-I-Know and Before

 

Poems were written, question marks were drawn.

What were the answers then?  The days were spent

in working, nights spent in wondering

What were the things one must do?

Answers came without questions, words came

Without letters.  Somehow they were used without meaning.

 

Poems were never shown and questions never asked.

Maybe answers never existed. But now,

There are memories and here we are. 

Answers come without warning to the questions

Never asked.  Thoughts seem preserved as jam.

We spread words freely now because we're safe. 

Time has cured anxiety.

 

The answer is, "Because I wanted to love you."

The question was, "Did you like me?"

The poem is here, but saddly, the time was then.

 

 

B. Benjamin

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