by Steve Marshall

Created on: August 05, 2011

My knowing is not always showing in me.
My ignorance competes not to complete.
How little I know, you would soon agree,
is not so easy to see in my mind's deceit.

I bombed out of college, lost in my defeat.
I had no wisdom, nor any great aplomb.
How little that I know is always showing,
I'm just an idiot carried along for the ride.

We're all allotted enough brains,
to do what all others cannot do.
In straining to be not yet myself,
it just means, I'm not yet who I could be.

I don't know means I won't know.
The truth is always the whole truth,
unless I'm standing so far, far aloof,
that its proof is in what I don't know.

I have chased knowing all of my life,
but how little I know is still showing.
I need to accept love to not be adept,
at not knowing that I'm not not knowing.

I am not yet showing what I am knowing.
We all know all we need to really know.
If I don't say, " How little I really know,"
my truth becomes overflowing in knowing.

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