Un-Knowing
You want to explain to your child Why she didn’t go to school today Even though it’s just Wednesday;
But you can’t.
The adult in you searches for words, Composure, A semblance of reason
The reason you too never saw it coming, Even though the newspapers and analysts blared incessantly with facts and opinions that somehow Omitted
A Wednesday;
A midweek day When heat, rain and hustle had been the only certain forecasts for the day.
When you woke up and knew
- more than you had ever before –
That you knew nothing at all.
Fungai R. Machirori (15/11/17)
(Image Credit: David Krut Projects / Robyn Penn)