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)