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The answers have all been used up.
Perhaps they never existed
and were only mirrors
face to face with emptiness.
But now the questions have also been used up.
The mirrors have broken,
even those that reflected nothing.
And there’s no way to fix them.
Still,
perhaps a question remains somewhere.
Silence is also a question.
A mirror remains that can’t be broken
because it faces nothing,
because it’s inside everything.
We’ve found a question.
Can silence also be an answer?
Perhaps a certain heights
questions and answers are exactly the same.
Roberto Juarroz
Translation by Joseph Hutchison