Riddle Burden Poem by Raj Arumugam

1
The solitary traveller
on dusty paths was a 
collector of riddles;
but his curse was
he could never 
remember any more 
than the last one 

so he could never
make the connections



2
He met a blind traveller 
and asked him for a riddle
and the eyeless traveller 
gave him one, and remarked as
they went on their separate journeys:
I am burdened by endless riddles
What is your riddle burden?


One had never enough
the other just too much -
so neither could ever make the connections