What is relevant?

What is relevant?

Is it always so obvious

The solution to a problem

So easily known

As to be a waste of words

Relayed in a loop

Of constant repetition.

If knowledge

Is an old story

So often heard

Then why impart it.

If in the teaching

There are questions

Newly brought to light

Is it to them we speak.

Do we seek wisdom

And hope old words are

Heard anew

By younger blood

Given a fresh sheen of relevance

In the telling.

Is it all a matter

Of impression

A targeted audience

Seeking definition

When truths are so vague

In shape and outline

As to be a construct

More probable than

The tail of a fairy.

Who will be defined

The teller or the told

When attribution

Of responsibility

For listening

Is passed from one

Blind spot to another.

What will we learn

When to the open mind

Nothing counts

But a moment of

Honest delivery.

In that brief interface

Between what was

And will become.

Is it only then

In a finite space

Of possibility and wonder

That we discover

Ourselves conceived as

Ever truly relevant.