Live the Questions
I want to beg you,
as much as I can,
to be patient toward
all that is unsolved
in your heart
and to try to love
the questions themselves—
like locked rooms
and like books
that are written
in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers,
which cannot be given to you
because you would not
be able to live them.
The point is,
to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then
gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day
into the future.
In other news, chronic pain continues to impair my quality of life.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Keep doing your stretches."\\
