The Right Question Poem by Adrian Wait

Do not seek answers
For there sake alone
A pretext for sleep
Tis far better to ask
The right question
Intensive attention
Listening is loving
Know their story
Listen, and be heard
To exist is to give
To own is to restrict
Stories untold, unheard
Reduce and distort
Listening liberates
Hearer with speaker
To know the story
Identify with others
Their story is yours
Interrelated existence
Friendship gives of itself
Isolation an internal prison
Constraint of mind and soul
Teach with generosity
Do not be afraid to be still
Information is never news
Softminded assumptions
Sacrifice life in knowledge
Intellectualising is fear
Fearing the need to be
Rather than appear
Answers induce sleep
Born of false questions
Live life and seek always
The right question.