It’s all about what you don’t know.
Why?
We are always tested on what we do know.
You can hear when people think they know everything.
They hold up the Earth and spin it on their fingers
like a basketball.
It twirls around and around,
and you know it will drop.
Because they couldn’t know everything.
They couldn’t know about the tall grass growing
in the plains,
the rains that lasted for days in the village,
the man who sits by the sunset every night to paint,
or the river running in the desert.
They couldn’t know about the woman with a new baby son,
or the father who is watching his daughter leave for college.
They don’t hear the weeping that echoes in the distance,
Or see the secrets higher than the ceilings we have built.
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