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Impossible Boy, Impossible Questions
Where is yesterday?
He is young, he is small, he wishes the world had more secrets
so the world supplies them all.
When is tomorrow?
He continues; I stifle laughter through smiles as I haven’t answered his first question,
yet he has already paraded forward.
How big is the sky?
I tell him it’s infinite, that it’s as deeply blue as the sea is deep,
and that, any day of the week, he could wish to soar through i-...
Can I make my wishes come true?
I pause, for I want to say yes, want to see his eyes light up like fireworks, want to feel his joy,
but for this, I must say no.
… Can you answer all of my questions?
He is curious, careful, cautiously dancing around the idea that I don’t know it all;
I eventually find my way to say, “No, but one day you will answer them all.’
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Young people have a lot of questions, and sometimes adults cannot be the glossaries of answers that they think they are.