The People Ask

Emma-Lee Scott

Callaghan, New South Wales

Australia

 

The people ask,
In their innocence,
Why and how come.
In my mind,
I wonder how,
How could I explain?
With the emptiness of words,
What is shattered,
With the pieces,
Thrown deep into the void,
Dark, ambivalent,
Unforgiving.
I wonder how,
In useless conversation,
How I could explain?
What is gone,
Will never be discovered,
It is not hidden,
But now a matter for oblivion.
I wonder how,
Without weeping,
How I could explain?
That their naïve question,
Reveals a deeper hurt,
Filled with longing,
With sadness and pain.
I wonder how,
How I could explain?
That the past is present,
Intertwined,
And not bygone.
I wonder how,
But never explain,
For truth is not for the innocent,
Or for simple.

Bio: Emma-Lee says this piece is about the difficulties of questions which do not have simple answers.