Unanswered Questions

by: Michelle G. Curiel 1999

I ask myself this question-again and again.

What do I want out of life? Who is my true friend?

Who will I love and who will love me-

for the rest of our lives, for all eternity.

Many questions arise, many thoughts in my mind.

Confusion is present, answers to life I have yet to find.

I want tranquility in life I don’t need despair.

Will I ever receive it, or will I live a nightmare?

What makes a good life? What is my destiny?

Will I have to find happiness? Or will it come and find me?

Thousands of questions always dance in my brain.

Unknown to me why- I may be going insane.

I don’t know if I’m happy. Question: What does that mean?

My happiness is always just temporary to me it seems.

Sometimes I’m smiling and feel so content.

Then it all goes away and I’m alone once again.

Why does this happen? Why my god why?

Why can’t smiles last? Why must we all die?

Heaven is real to me but is something I cannot conceive.

So many question this place, so many don’t believe.

All these questions I ask are only a few.

Does anyone have the answers? Do you know what to do?

Can you answer them all? All to the full extent?

Tell me what they are, and I will love you to the end.

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