What I Don’t Know

 

As I grow old

I now sit and ponder

wondering about

all that I don’t know.

 

I don’t know:

If the butterfly effect is true

and the flapping of their wings

can change the course

of the universe.

 

I don’t know:

If our lives on this small speck

have any significance

in the billions of years

before and after us.

 

I don’t know:

If there is a here-after.

Will it be full of laughter?

Or if it at all

really matters.

 

I don’t know:

Why so many on this planet

live in poverty and distress

while I am

so blessed?

 

I don’t know:

if this life is random

and capricious

or has something

now to teach us.

 

I don’t know:

All the players on the stage

or how long the

curtain will be raised

for the next act.

 

I do know:

That I will not live forever

and therefore, I treasure

these precious moments

beneath the stars.

 

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