Questions

Questions. Mostly unanswered but still worth savoring
The act of articulating a thought brings its own reward
And trouble too, for outlining a pitfall brings up liability
We'd rather plod on covered by our veil of inertia

Forewarned implies agency and the shackles of responsibility
And tort with its troubling specter, a reminder that we live in community
Caught between decisions to forget - escape clauses
And what we choose to remember, commemorate and applaud

Better the comfort blanket of neglect
The faint hope of a rescue at the last, the arc of a story
The seductions of wishes, human truths to live by
Something, someone will come at the last moment

Lingering thoughts, softly, beneath a whisper
Hovering, floating almost above a scream
Unspoken messages, liminal, unseen
Nesting, incubating, fragments of a dream
Questions, yes. Mostly unanswered, but always worth savoring

Questions, a playlist

A soundtrack for this note (spotify version)

• The Questions by Common & Mos Def
• Unanswered Question by Amel Larrieux
• Love is the Question by Linvall Thompson
• The Question of U by Prince
• No Question by Roy Ayers
• Question and Answer by Pat Methany
• There Are More Questions Than Answers by Johnny Nash
• The Question Is by The Winans
• 21 Questions by 50 Cent
• Question Mark by Allen Kwela Octet
• Reasonable Question by Brian Eno
• Ask Me No Questions by The Bangles
• Questions by David Ruffin
• Questions by Morgan Heritage

File under: culture, observation, strategy, memory, perception, poetry, toli

Writing log: May 20, 2023