Description: Everyone has questions,
but who has the answers?
just what i think most of the time. we all have questions, most of which aren't answered, but we still have them. so this is just what it feels like i go through when i have a question that isn't answered. hope you all enjoy. take care all.
Answers always come when you're not looking for them. When you're searching they always manage to pass you by. I truly believe that everything lies within you. Live day by day and always for the moment, not for yesterday or tomorrow. Hold onto the here and now, or it'll be gone before you ever realize that it was ever there! I appreciate this write for a number of reasons and you may have inspired something for me here. We'll find out in the next couple of days I suppose, but you've got my mind going on overdrive here. Take it easy and good luck finding whatever answers you seek.
st1: the first stanza reminds how thoughts are fluid and the hardest questions to answer are the “why” we do chase after answers that is a basic truth.
st2: I like complicated wonderings, hell I like complexities myself. The stream is good, I’d rather see it as a raging river but perhaps your thought processes are calmer. one thing that does not quite stand for me here is the curiosity doesn’t help, it is curiosity that leads me to answers perhaps it is different for you.
st3: I do like in this stanza the use of anger, frustration, and confusion; often a result of not wanting to find what we seek. Perhaps it is the first line that doesn’t help with the situation but I digress most of the time we need to find these things out for ourselves.
st4: in this stanza is also a common thought I share that too. I have that same thought for many that are around me they do not really know followed by someone does. at least in the context the lies are seen for what they are, worse than those are lies mixed with truth.
The last line is cool. The write is simplistic but it is the banner of the one who wants to find out the truth. This write is a far cry from the duck hunting write I read before. It didn’t have that metaphoric punch like that other one but I like the message in it. As long as one still searches there will be answers waiting to be found. Take care Zach,
It's good to see you questioning Zach - that's what makes us curious humans eager for answers. Who does have the answers? That's a rhetorical question really. I'm not sure... I think that we all find those answers ourselves - through experiences that shape us, through other people we meet. We all have fragments of the answer - I think it's up to you to put these fragments together and come to your own conclusions. We'll never have the perfect whole but we can come close, can't we?
And it's through searching that we better ourselves I think - on all levels. Sorry, I just rambled, didn't I? Lol.
I truly like your poem, I just have one quick thing to suggest. What if, we do away with the last 2 lines?
Everyone has questions, but who has the answers?
It cant help but sound cliché, and what's more is that it dilutes the impact of preceding lines, which are astounding by the way! They would make a MUCH better ending:
I see the lies ahead of me yet the truth is not in sight
The punch is there, the frustration, the whole intention of the piece! So could we? That would be just awesome! Great poem you have, cheers!
Well I would say it all depends on what particular questions you are looking for answers on. So many life questions, and some you will find the answers to in time through your own life experience. It sort of explains why they say old people are wise. It is because they have lived and learned through experience and many of their questions were found entirely by just living life. I have found that old people are wonderful people to talk to. They can teach you a thing or two about life. When it comes right down to it, nobody knows everything and some things just dont make sense and they never will. A thought provoking and interesting poem by you. Nicely written and expressed. Take care!
Submission Name: Questions
