<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521288" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Simple Question</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'While I am asking questions which You do not answer, You ask me a question which is so simple that I cannot answer. I do not even understand the question.' Thomas Merton, A Merton Reader, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And He continued by questioning them, ‘But who do you say that I am? '' Mark 8: 29</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Clear day<br>golden sky<br>gives way to<br>black clouds<br>and I ask, <br>'why? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's a child's question.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within cities<br>hard edges, pavements<br>grey receive the red<br>tide, heads fall<br>and lives split open, <br>spill into<br>gutters fill, <br>sewers, fill<br>the sea, <br>and like a<br>persistent child<br>I ask 'why? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the morning<br>through bright<br>windows I see how<br>spring leans<br>to summer, timid<br>leaves open wide<br>glow in silver light<br>and green fire<br>fills the wood, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and by this beauty<br>silenced, <br>I hear<br>in tones<br>beyond my hearing<br>a simple question; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'who? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but I cannot answer; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not<br>know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521288" data-title="A Simple Question de Steven Federle" data-description="'While I am asking questions which You do not answer, You ask me a question which is so simple that I cannot answer. I do not even understand the question.' Thomas Merton, A Merton Reader, 'And He continued by questioning them, ‘But who do you..."></div> </div> </div>

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