"I don't know" doesn't mean that I can't imagine
"I don't know" doesn't mean that I don't have any idea of what might be
"I don't know" doesn't mean that I can't interpret life with understanding
"I don't know" doesn't mean I am clueless
"I don't know" means I gave up certainty
"I don't know" means that my love for others is more important than me being right
"I don't know" means I am small, not weak
"I don't know" means there are more important things to do with my time
"I don't know" doesn't mean I can't believe
"I don't know" doesn't mean that I can't trust
"I don't know" doesn't mean that I can't hope
"I don't know" doesn't mean that I can't wonder
"I don't know" means I am human
"I don't know" means I am limited
"I don't know" means questions are more important than answers
"I don't know"… means "I don't know"
© Ruby Neumann
Poet's Note: Written April 7, 2022
I am not a big fan of labels, because most of them don't define me well. I don't think I can be narrowed down well to label. Especially a label that needs to encompass a lot more people than just me. But there is one label, I don't really mind, because of what it means. Agnostic simply means "I don't know". But even that needs expounding on, so this is what I mean by these three little words that, for me, explain so much.
I used to think everyone was Agnostic, just a mix of aware Agnostics and unaware Agnostics. But I have since learned that certainty is a feeling not a state of existence. So if some one feels 100% certain, how can I call them Agnostic. Maybe in reality they don't know, but if they feel certain they know, how can I take that away from them. So I will let others swim in their ocean of certainty if that is what they want to do, but I will drown in those waters, so I will swim elsewhere. I will swim in the river of the unknown and in those waters, I will be free.
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