What If? Ask it all that you like, sit under the one sun, or under many moons, ponder. |
-What If?- by Keaton Foster (Six Twelve Line Poems With Same Name & Concept) (Poem 1) There’s a stone Marking home In a field of plenty Inconspicuous There is no name Just dates and space Something is buried there But the world all around Has been made unaware Some darker days I visit Standing, pondering What if? (Poem 2) What if? What did we miss? Why didn’t we see it? Were we looking? Were our eyes closed? If so, how come? If not, then why not? Was it important? If so, in which way? If not, why even show it? Is there a point we are missing? Or is missing it the point? (Poem 3) Are you a liar? And if you are Are you lying to all else? Or just lying to yourself? Why can’t you speak the truth? Is the truth scarier than the lie? If so, many should be able to relate If not, then what are doing it for? Are you just not interested in the truth? If not, let’s just assume Filling in the blanks with What if? (Poem 4) What if? What if not? How come? Why exactly? Who is really asking? Will any answer matter? Can it be random? Or obfuscated diatribe Clearly meant to mystify On loan from above to deny What any answer given Could hope to imply. (Poem 5) The gun is alone No one is at home In a chest of drawers Patiently it waits In a constant state of What if? It’s an inanimate object It has no soul, no feelings Nothing but a specified role It will wait as long as it takes Someday its wait will be over. (Poem 6) In one hand is sand Soaked with water Quickly it becomes mud In the other hand is mud Thoroughly dried by the sun Again it has become sand After various viscosities And changes in property He takes both hands The one with wet mud And the other with dry sand And again he ponders, what if? What If? Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2015. |