Is the word a tautology?
It seems to mean “if less, less.”
Or is it, as in theology,
Tinged, like faith is, with a guess?
What will happen is contingent
On (an unless) what might not be,
Should the past or future invent
Some unclear possibility.
We use the word every day.
Are we afraid to speak the truth,
To even believe what we say
(Old, we say it — less in our youth),
Nor mean to understand unless
We think unknowing to express?
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