Bluebell Questions
Do you see me?
Funny you would ask.
We don’t look here. We don’t talk here.
We don’t even ask here.
Why do you ask?
I ask because I can.
I ask because I should.
I ask so that I learn.
I ask so that I would.
Do you hear me?
Funny you would say.
We don’t see here. We don’t look here.
We don’t even speak here.
Why do you ask?
I ask because living in the dark.
Makes Jack a shaded boy.
I ask because living in the light
He lives in bluebells and cockleshells.
How does your garden grow?
I ask because living in the light
Makes us blind corners.
Sunrise after sunset. Another,
laundry day.
Have you ever aired your underwear?
We don’t ask here.
We rule here. We rule there.
Only children ask.
This is the way it has always been.
Don’t ask. Don’t say. Don’t see.
Life shines greater in the dark.
Funny I have to ask.
I learned beneath great mountains.
Great trees far older than me.
Rivers could eat you in a second.
Snowstorms in three.
If you don’t ask,
you’ll go before you know:
One is all. All is one.
The law of equivalent exchange asks,
“who are you?”
If we will travel together
Let us travel together.
Hand with hand in the dark.
To the corner’s edge.
I believe I know what waits there.
How about you?
