Ask to Receive

There is no certitude to offer what I ask

for but for the fact there will be no

answer given

                     if I keep asking questions

of what, of whom has no answer to give.

A lifetime can be spent asking the wrong

questions so we can say, "See?  I told

you so!"

              But who wants that as a benediction?

There is no question each of us are given a question

at birth to ask and once asked

heaven and hell become what they utterly are

and we see why this world

was once, still is paradise.

                                        The wrong questions,

the wrong answers open nothing.  It is that singular

question -- perhaps whispered - to which the answer,

"Yes, I've known that all along!"

is a song of salvation not even Angels can sing.

-Byron Hoot