Answer My Question: is a poem by Meg Day in her collection Last Psalm at Sea Level. This poem feels almost like a curse, probably towards God for taking something important from the author. The opening lines suggest the thing taken from them was a loved one. It begins:
Who called the time, wrote
The numbers, where did they learn
To form the ones & twos
That make just after eleven
They’re asking God, an all knowing being who created everything, who gave them the right to creat time. Who gave them the right to give it and then take it away at random.
The author continues to curse at the deity. Begging for answers as to why this is happening, why they have to go through this horrible situation and who gave them the right to cause this.
It isn’t until the end when our author stops asking “who” and starts asking “how.”
How do you choose a coffin
For a body that’s still growing
The question of why this poem was written is revealed in two heart breaking lines. Leaving us with an answer but the author still with only questions.