- Alyssa Piperis
#filterlysspoetry: "the answer to the unknown."
i don’t need concrete answers
to all the questions
that keep me up at night.
i’ve come to know
that there are complex things
we’re simply not meant to know.
so i’ve learned to put my faith
in the greens and blues
that paint the body of
our sweet mother earth;
in the sobering thoughts
i find at the bottom
of my whiskey glass;
in letting you give my
teary eyes
and onion-cutting hands a break
so we can slow dance
in the middle of the kitchen
on a monday night.
i find my answers every day
in the greens and blues.
in the empty glasses.
in you.
mostly you.
i think maybe you’re the answer
to every question i’ve ever had.
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*Fun fact: I came up with the line, "I think maybe you're the answer to every question I've ever had," a while ago. I recently used a variation of it in another blog post, but I wanted to use it in a poem, so there ya have it.
