Thursday, June 12, 2014

QUESTION THE UNIVERSE



THE LOW WALL

Choked up sitting on a low wall
wondering why—not a specific why,
only why?
A beginning of a question the cosmos
must know the end of. For I do not.

I expect no answer,
for there is none
to be found in the tangled ball of yarn,
most easily dealt with by fire
and a few bucks to buy a new one.

So many folks looking for something,
half asking for this and half rejecting it.
I remember there is no unity with impunity
when it comes to values, either you ask why—
or you disregard the word to move along unknowing what—

is choking you up.

© M Durfee
6.12.2014

12 comments:

  1. i have had those times when i did not know why but i felt the pain f the universe pretty heavily...maybe it is the lack of unity...or values in general..everyone pulling in a hundred directions....

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  2. Hmmm, what's a bit of mystery of why what happens to keep us engaged in our lives.... Not to make light of it, I think most of us have, pondered the reason of why (I) am even here. To what end. And that's why we have poets like you to keep us thinking...

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  3. I like why. I've been asking it all my life. But I also like to sit around untangling yarn. In fact, I untangled a couple of balls worth of yarn just yesterday.

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    1. Alice are you sure they were yarn and not cat hairballs?

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  4. We're torn, for the desire to know the whole truth, and for the desire to keep still, mind the peace while there is peace...

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  5. I ask why so long that I shrug my shoulders and resign to "why not."

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  6. "either you ask why-
    or you disregard the word"

    yes, i wish more people would ask why, disregarding the word does nobody any good at all

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  7. Why or why not? I like that ending very much Mark ~ Have a good Friday ~

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  8. Questions make people uncomfortable. They don't like that. Especially self generated questions.

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  9. Not having the answer myself, I will have to default to Lao Tsu who once said "because I am". . .

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  10. You say so very much - so very simply. Nicely realized



    ALOHA from Honolulu
    ComfortSpiral
    =^..^= <3

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  11. Know nothing, but people keep jumping over my fence ... no matter how low or high I built it ... might just as well ... run for the hills and camp out in for the bushes somewhere?

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So Walking Man I was thinking...