asking, listening

 

So often we are taught to ask

the wrong kinds of questions -

scratching our heads,

silently thinking

of all the things we want

from this bountiful life.

Instead, we should be shouting

into the unmarred air, "Life,

what do you want from me!?"

Then, spend the rest of our days

with heads bent to the wind,

listening.

The right kind of question

labors on Mystery's behalf;

its purpose is to praise

rather thank plunder

all the unseen futures

of our collective 

imagination.

~ April Tierney

from Memory Keeper