Poem: "Questions of Spirit"

[dreamwriters]

Title: Questions of Spirit
Rating: G
Word Count: 158
Line Count: 28
Fandom/Original: Original/Fandom: Nine for the Nebula's Heart Collaborative Canon (nineforthenebulasheart)
Notes: Inspired by/follows moriwen1's little exchange between Tamar and Kilikina in "Four Questions" and ysabetwordsmith's discussion prompts from there and within the lore ideas.
Summary: Kilikina comes to a conclusion that isn't quite the answer she was hoping for.


"Questions of Spirit"

"There are only two who don't know,"
Tamar says, and then asks,
"To which camp do you belong?"

Why is she seeking?
Does she have no need
of the Nebula's Heart?
Or is she afraid of it?

She still doesn't know that answer
No matter how long she tries to Be
So she continues to Ask
hoping there is some Truth
that can unravel her own

But all the known stories
of the Nebula's Heart are different,
All the things it does are too.
For one who cannot say no,
the questions without answers
are the hardest ones to know.

And she wonders if it's the two old lessons:
learning to live from Aloha
And unlearning to receive a new answer
The openness is the important part

Maybe all the stories are true,
maybe none of them are.
Maybe her answer must be both and...
Maybe it's simply
the search for her own meaning
she's trying to find.

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