To Know How To Wonder

 

We know.
We know we know the answers.
What to do.
How.
And why.
We know we know.
The false.
The true.
The tried.
Few
     are the questions,
and fewer
     the answers we cannot grasp.
And at these few
     we know to wonder.
Indeed, this is life gifted full:
     to know what we know,
     yet know how to wonder.
Yet, fuller still in our discovery:
     they know,
     and they wonder too.


We
     and they.
Know
     and wonder.
Path to peace!
     To human perfection?
No.
This path remains our dream.
And we must know that we know why.
And we must permit ourselves to wonder
     how future binds to history.
Today, again:
     at which we wonder, they know;
     at which we know, they wonder.

To Know How to Wonder 

(Reader’s choice of Pronouns)
Bob Komives

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