I kept my answers small and kept them near;
Big questions bruised my mind but still I let
Small answers be a bulwark to my fear.
The huge abstractions I kept from the light;
Small things I handled and caressed and loved.
I let the stars assume the whole of night.
But the big answers clamoured to be moved
Into my life. Their great audacity
Shouted to be acknowledged and believed.
Even when all small answers build up to
Protection of my spirit, still I hear
Big answers striving for their overthrow
And all the great conclusions coming near.
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The poet leaves the reader in a state of suspense. The big questions intrude, can’t be ignored. The ‘great conclusions’ are ‘coming near’, seemingly to overpower the small answers, also ‘near’ that make up the first line of the poem. 
 But they never reach the poet, and we aren’t told what impact they will have. The reader is therefore left in limbo, anticipating but never realising the effect they will have.