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The answer is in the question
by Laura DoomI have a question.
I ask, not because I need the answer...
it's not about information or disinformation,
knowledge or ignorance,
truth or lie.
What I need is your response.
You will tell me either what you want me to hear,
or what you believe I want to hear.
I will hear either what I want to hear,
or what I believe you don't want me to hear.
Is it always this way between lovers?
That's not the question,
although it is an answer to my question.
And I know that you know my question.
So, the question is - why do I need to ask?
08/28/2006 Posted on 08/28/2006
Copyright © 2024 Laura Doom
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 08/28/06 at 01:41 AM So much truth here. |
| Posted by Maria Terezia Ferencz on 08/28/06 at 07:58 PM Honesty, is there really such a thing as this? Any answers to this would be appreciated.
And yes I needed to ask.....great write. |
| Posted by Richard Vince on 08/28/06 at 10:19 PM the disquiet, the second guessing, the assumptions...you've an unparallelled ability to remind us of the aspects of life we'd rather forget. as likely to be what we need as it is not to be what we want. the world could do with more people who think like you do. |
| Posted by Ashok Sharda on 08/29/06 at 04:25 PM The communication is an intricate interaction. Whats being transmitted is what is recieved under the pretext of truth. And truth is relative and so is untruth.The question can be a disguise and so the answer.After all we are social animals. |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 12/22/07 at 11:59 AM I think if we did not ask questions,
and neither sought responses to our questions,
they would, whomever they are, snatch us from our doldrums and affix us to storefronts windows,
to serve the wide viewing public as mannequins that set no particular fashion trends. if the question is not one of a curious nature and rather, it is to hurt or to wound, I believe the answer to be either the salve or the salt in the wound. |
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