Purgatory (circular poem)
October 19, 2021
Purgatory (circular poem)
I used to think adults knew everything
A diligent pupil
I absorbed every whisper of knowledge
My parents intended or didn’t intend
To blow at me
Tall were my problems
But grownups were taller
Like an umbrella, they could shade me
From all droplets of acid rain
And nothing in this world
Could possibly be ambiguous
What does it even mean
When we utter the word “unknown”
What does it even mean?
When we say in a few months
A spike will plateau
What does it even mean?
When we say in a few months
An injection will save us all
What does it even mean?
When I bend down
Eye-level with a two-year-old
Asking me “how much longer”
And I don’t know how to respond
and
I used to think adults knew everything
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