No answers to any query
will come
(or answers that do not satisfy)
Questions in an examination -
Uncouth wriggling after facts
when all answers
lead, but to confusion
Questions of a life time -
a pretense of fond hopes -
questions not fit to be answered...
(sometimes even to be asked)
Questions staring you in the face
with a gaping hole
in their mouths
that encompasses your world...
And other questions -
oozing blood
when you squeeze out their relevance,
holding the conversation
at a standstill,
providing nothing
but a sense of jealousy
and hate
(the smoke then lingering
in your memory for weeks)
... but hardly - if ever - answered.
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