Short Questioners Poems

Dehydrated, scared, 
Incontinent questioners
Children at bedtime...

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How can the entire faerie family fit into this tiny house?
The questioners did not realize it went underground
Had two levels, and faeries do not take up much room
They can fold themselves up, and even evaporate on whim...

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Until strife became the rule
You fled your World
Was it easy to break away
in your ward of questioners
Nobody seemed to care

This tag of war
I've seen your artillery
why cant you understand
Im leaving the World of  detractors

In the morning
open your eyes
Snowbright
keep a secret
tell us no lies...

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I
God always wins the wager if we live long on earth... and even if we don't.

II
Some questions die with questioners; even if God heard the questioning daily (for 90 years)

III
If Jesus died for the sins of those born after 2000, will more from India and China be in heaven? Will whites be a minority in heaven?

IV
If race and color don't matter in heaven, God is miserly not to have given more practice here...

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Things we think are obvious
Some others may not get.
If a question’s raised,
There should be no cause for regret.

Simple explanations help
To clarify what’s meant.
Often what’s interpreted
Is far from the intent.

How one states intentions
Can cause discontent or pique,
Not illumination, which is 
What the askers seek.

Wording and inflection
May change innocence to vice;
And challenging one’s know-how
May make questioners think twice....

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Oh, to preach, to pontificate
Seize the “bully” pulpit
Bask in the reverberations
Of your own voice
Mock the sanctity of silence

To expound on the simplicity
Of the impossibly attainable
Berate the questioners
Expound on humility
In stained glass superiority

To infiltrate the openness
Of childlike minds
Inculcate the innocence
With tainted seed

Oh, rave on
You echo-chambered ego
Your bellicose denials
Deny their truth

John G. Lawless
©6/27/2023...

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