TOO TRUE

Don’t.
Really, just… Don’t.
The kinds of questions you ask
are not the kind
you really want answers to.
The answers may surprise you
and generate reactions far too true.

The poems you think are about you
are not.
The devotions you presume
are yours
belong to others:
your betters
superior
in most every way.

I told you:
if you ask,
I will answer.
Ours was a working biosphere
until you revoked
our own personal
“Don’t ask, don’t tell.”