"Afraid So" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont

The poem in which the author asks questions, presses questions of negative connotation. It leaves us with yes or no questions that are not particularly desirable to be true. With all these negative, and rather depressing questions, the poem doesn't exactly leave the reader with a pessimistic vibe, like presumed.

The narrator asking all the questions, seems (in my mind) this hopeful wife-like women asking these questions in hopes for a different answer than what is apparent--namely "no, everything is fine". But it seems as if that's not the case. I say wife-like, because wives seem to have the image of constantly questioning and persisting toward a husband, with a "say-it-isn't-so" questions.