Wednesday 6 January, 2010

silence and questions

Silence is what you have chosen

As a shield or a spear, I know not

If a shield, then cast it away
For I do not wield a sabre

And if a spear, then stab
At will
For I do offer neither a shield nor a battle

All I have are these hooks
Of questions
Which stick to my flesh
And pester to be answered

They will fall off with time

Which, they say waits for none.
But it seems, with me,
It has found a stable partner