Questions And Answers

Down the life,

with so many nooks and spaces unstamped;

with the territories dwelled upon by strangers, known faces & hearts and hypocrites alike;

With the voices

some haunting and others crooning;

With the words

some daunting and many cheering;

and

With the distances

alone, accompanied and crowded;

Moments have caught up

with piles of questions

and stacks of partial answers.

Why I have been shy sometimes

and taken my candor too far the other times?

And,

Why I consorted some

and stayed away from others?

My choices of the moments; I would say.

But who to blame for;

When the choices went awry.

When my chivalrous got unnoticed and looked down upon.

And why someone turned out to be a cipher.

I would ask god

if he's there or she's listening.

Couldn't you make life less capricious?

But would there be charm?

None.

We would have less options and avenues then.

But

There would be a lot less to atone.