What Does It Mean? Poem by Darby Holmes

What does it mean?
A question so contagious
Scrawled across pages
Since the Middle Ages

What does it mean?
No-one really knows
Lost in the snows
And sung by the crows

What does it mean?
Why do you ask?
It is quite a task
To answer so fast

What does it mean?
Such is life
A man and his wife
Deep in strife

What does it mean?
A desperate soul asks
Hiding beneath a mask
And drowning in a cask

What does it mean?
It cannot be answered
As elegant as a dancer
And terrible as a cancer

What does it mean?
You say you know
But you stay in tow
Tongue tied like a bow

What does it mean?
We may never find out
For life’s endless drought
Is packed full of doubt