Keep On Asking, Knocking and Exploring

Even when your heart
 is numbed
 from
 repeated bombardments
 of loss
 and grief 
and betrayal…
Keep on asking.

Even when you are
 exhausted and threadbare, exasperated
 at being 
responsible enough…
Keep on knocking.

And when there is no hand to hold you, no ear to hear
 your cloistered cry, No strength to Change anything…
Keep on exploring.

Wait in hope when hope seems lost; your persistence in waiting and taking one timely step…
Even when the wall looms High and thick


And despairing…
Makes the difference.

Keep on asking. Keep on seeking. Keep on exploring.

 

A poem by Hal Edwards – August 2012.