No Answers Poem by Suzanne Hayasaki

There may be no God.
There may be no absolute rights or wrongs.
There may be no life after death.
There may be no final end.

This world may be chaos
Without beginning or end
Without limits or laws
Without perfection or flaws.

And we may be nothing
Or we may be everything
But while we are alive
We will never know.

So why lose sleep?
Why probe so deeply?
Why chase your own mind
Through its puzzling conundrums?

Lie here with me.
Listen to my heart beat.
There is eternity in that pattern.
There is truth in my breath.

Remember the womb.
Remember the security of pre-knowing.
Remember the weightlessness
Of both body and conscience.

Let your questions go.
Be aware of the potential
Of a blank page
Of empty space
Of prohibitions unmade
And histories unsaved.

Each moment is pristine.
Every outcome remains unforeseen.
The future holds endless potential
For one who clings to nothing.