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I never have anything in mind
when I ask.
So "whatever you want"
is a real impasse.
I just thought I'd find out
what was going to be? If only
I'd kept my mouth shut.
I guess we'll see?
Since you would have gone some which way
of your own,
if I hadn't barged in all curious.
Perhaps you can find your way back
to that. But in future?

If ever I ask,

It means I don't want to suggest
or steer, or control. I never
do ask if that's my goal. I suggest.
Or I point. I control
myself.
To try to control you
or anyone else is
not thinkable. Doesn't occur.
Undesirable, too.
Distasteful and strange.

How can I find out
where it's at
if the answer is changed
just because I happened to ask?
Insane. "I don't know" "I haven't decided yet"
- these are facts,
and always on-point
any time one asks
and it turns out
those answers are true.

I am not trying ever
to draw my answer out,
or put mine in
when I have asked you.

I have asked you.