Perhaps The Answer Poem by Diana van den Berg

Perhaps the answer
to the question
of fearing
not fearing
is to question
its validity
and more so
its necessity
and even its protection
but I do
and I don’t
know
the answers
only (I think) – or at least, mainly
because I don’t know
the minds
of past and potential
intruders
so I question
the questions
and I continue
to fear
not fearing.

Perhaps the answer
is to find another question
or perhaps the answer
is to fear
fearing.

(11 October 2007)