Position Was Always One of Your Favorite Words

Music: Maio Maduro Maio.
By Lovira.
Performed by Lovira at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Position was always one of your favorite words,
As in, What is your position on ...?
Here it means opinion, yet
It also means pose,
Not as in pose a question,
But as in positioning oneself in front of a camera,
Going public.
Since the Hungarian Revolution I have preferred
Not to go public. My positions
Seem too awkward to expose.
What my camera sees remains
Undeveloped. I am in no position
To have positions.
My position is that of a scientist who knows
That the last time he was certain of anything
He turned out to be looking into a mirror.
Shaken, I place my questions
Into a mosaic of wonder.

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