Reassurance

[keonaa.livejournal.com]

I must love the questions
themselves
as Rilke said
like locked rooms
full of treasure
to which my blind
and groping key
does not yet fit.

and await the answers
as unsealed
letters
mailed with dubious intent
and written in a very foreign
tongue.

and in the hourly making
of myself
no thought of Time
to force, to squeeze
the space
I grow into.

~Alice Walker (Revolutionary Petunias)

Comments

[raggedclause.livejournal.com]

I love this. Thank you for sharing it-- I'd never heard of it!

like your icon!

[keonaa.livejournal.com]

I really like this collection of hers.
Thank you for reading it, and I am happy that you liked it.

[saturna.livejournal.com]

Good stuff.

[keonaa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reading :)

[tlcbird.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. I'm late commenting but the index feature in this community is awesome...I found this on an author search. Great poem.