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Poem Details
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| Title: | No solutions |
| Date Submitted: | 3/21/2008 |
| Email: | crimson_surrender@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
Answers are not solutions until they succeed. Answers are not correct until they have been shown to solve the problem, right the wrongs. Answers are like theories, they are what could solve a problem, explain the events, meet the desires for knowledge and understanding, alleviate the pain. Answers are like medications which could but don’t seem to enable me to find reasons and abilities to crawl beyond this. Answers are without contexts or histories or understandings of the problems or the questions. Answers are rational responses to rational questions about rational life. But this life is not rational. And the question is now not about how to keep a heart beating and keep a person alive, but how to make a person want to be alive. And this blackness is not rational. It is a colour, a feeling, a sound, a weight, a temperature, a shape, a stain, an infection, a fate, a coffin, a label, a diagnosis, a stigma, a secret, a rumour, a personality, a behaviour, a nightmare, a thought, a fear, a future, a pain, a past, and a present. It cannot be contained in space or time, it is limitless. Its reach and influence cannot be described or even understood. It is strong, heavy, dark, smoggy, viscous, vicious, smug, powerful, sinister, and cunning; it will weaken and wear you and wake you smugly to face another morning you will mourn. It will penetrate your very being and it stains your soul. Like an acid it will burn away dreams, desires and hopes. It will eat at your heart to the point where there is just enough left to keep you alive. It will eat at your brain and send tendrils creeping through your veins that will strangle your lungs. Your heart will shrivel up like snow white’s poisoned apple core, and the empty space inside you will somehow take on an unbearable weight, and the ache will echo and reverberate with every heart-beat. You cannot separate which parts of you it has tainted because it has infiltrated everything. It is in your blood, maybe in more ways than one, working sinister magic on hearts and minds. Answers are what should solve the problem and solutions are what would give each of us what we need. ... |