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The answer is 42
\nBut I don’t know what the question is
\nI have asked the the ones flirting with insanity
\nAnd the ones far from the border line crazy
\nI have asked the young and the old
\nAnd the one’s whose stories aren’t told<\/p>\n
The answer is 42
\nBut I have no idea what the question is…
\nI have searched the new york times
\nAnd the readers digest
\nI have asked politicians
\nAnd men and women of religion
\nI have asked clergymen and searched the prayer books
\nI have looked through the CIA files and the KGB files
\nI have asked the powerful and the powerless
\nBut still I search…<\/p>\n
The answer is 42
\nBut I don’t know what the question is
\nI have a million keys
\nBut can’t find doors
\nLeaders have hearts
\nBut cant find love
\nI have so much stories
\nBut no one to tell it to
\nI know what the answer is
\nBut even my deep thought fails me
\nIn finding the question.<\/p>\n
The answer is 42
\nAnd I still don’t know what the question is
\nBut I am aware it resides in the morning dew
\nAnd in the rays of the scorching sun
\nAnd in the silence of cold nights
\nAnd in the thoughts of my neighbours
\nAnd of my friends
\nAnd of my wife
\nAnd of my family
\nAnd in Nigeria
\nAnd in Gaza
\nAnd in Paris
\nAnd in Garissa
\nAnd in the xenophobic south
\nAnd in the racist north
\nAnd in the war torn west
\nAnd in the corrupt center
\nAnd in piracy infested east
\nAnd in the heart of the brick catcher
\nWho was ordered to throw the answer back at life
\nIn the hope of it asking a question instead.<\/p>\n
The answer is 42
\nBut I don’t know what the question is
\nAnd except this poem is written in base 13
\nThen could my question be “what is 6 into 9?”
\nI mean 6 times, I was stabbed in the back
\nBut 9 times I survived
\nI mean 6 times i called onto Allah
\nBut 9 times he responded
\nI mean 6 times I was born
\nBut I’m in my 9th life
\nI mean 6 times I failed
\nBut 9 times she loved me more
\nI mean 6 times i died
\nBut 9 times he gave me life…<\/p>\n
The answer is 42
\nBut I don’t know what the question is
\nAnd except this poem is written with tears
\nThen could the question be “Why our mothers die while giving life?”
\nOr why our girls are harvested before being ripe?<\/p>\n
The answer is 42
\nBut I don’t know what the question is
\nIf this poem was written with half of my brain
\nMaybe the question is “What happened to all the empty spaces?”<\/p>\n
The answer is 42
\nAnd I don’t know what the question is
\nExcept this poem is written in the AUC?
\nThen the question is what is A and what is U and what is C?
\nOr Why are there 54 versions of normal
\nWhen all we seek is just one?
\nThe answer is 42
\nBut I still don’t know what the question is
\nAnd except this poem was written in a refugee camp?
\nMaybe the question could be “Why am I refugee?”
\nAnd why do I need to seek refuge?<\/p>\n
The questions are infinite
\nThe answers are not
\nThe answer may be 42
\nBut the questions that will lead me to the answer
\nI am yet to find
\nThis poem will not end
\nUntil I feed
\nAt the restaurant
\nIn the end of the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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