Unanswerable Questions
Can I ask without
Longing for the answer?**
Unanswerable questions
Come with the wind
Like the unseen scent
My dog takes notice of
Takes in with his pauses
Mapping thermal colors & temporality
Mapping creatures coming & homing
Unanswerable questions
Come with the light
Like the flicker arriving in the night
Revealing the life of stars
From 100,000 years before
Showing ancient bright & temporality
Showing space vast & past
Unanswerable questions
Come with the silence
Like the quiet underneath
The breath of unspoken feelings
Sounding of sorrows & temporality
Sounding heart’s voices & choices
Unanswerable questions
Come with the longing;
The temporality,
Stretching us into the future or
Lengthening us into the past
The longing pulling us away from
The felt sense of infinite now—
Knowing, living, loving our Aliveness
Our presence of being here now
Can I ask without
Longing for the answer?
Can I feel the flame of my questioning heart
flickering here, without temporality
Can I hold the unknowable inside timelessness?
Can I live within the skin of now?
**Inspired by the question “can I ask without longing for an anwser?” from
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
