In The Beginning Was The Why?

Three little letters to cast you adrift

Begins every thinking progression

Too often it shows how little we know

The ultimate human confession

Three little letters to make you uneasy

To send you hazily seeking suggestion

So often a trap that one ought to avoid

When three times removed from the question

We all have an honest enquiry pursuit

Not enough to be taken as read
We so need to take part in discovery
To make best of the space in our head

The mind of a child is a seeker in need
Well aware of how thinking’s a task
They love to ask why barely listening at all
I stall for time using “Why do you ask?”

 For the children, young and old alike