Reassurance
I must love the questions
themselves
as Rilke said
like locked rooms
full of treasure
to which my blind
and groping key
does not yet fit.
and await the answers
as unsealed
letters
mailed with dubious intent
and written in a very foreign
tongue
and in the hourly making
of myself
no thought of Time
to force, to squeeze
the space
I grow into.
.
by Alice Walker
from Her Blue Body Everything We Know
Harvest Books, 1991
.