round

"live the questions"
rilke said
i'm coming to find
that the questions
are round
circular and cyclical
to be more exact
no such thing as
straight to the top
instead they wind you around
and then bring you right back
cycles of living, learning
and asking
finding and knowing
and then returning
recasting
what if our goals
were shaped like a sphere
the strands of a rope
wound around one another
no beginning or end
just circling together

life is like water

like moonshine

like earth

all round and all moving

in cycles it turns

connection

completeness

seems more within reach

when cycles and circles

are the shapes our lives take

"live the questions"

rilke said

"perhaps then, someday

far in the future,

you will gradually,

without even noticing it,

live your way into the answer"