Why

“Pure Beginnings” by Kit Hevron Mahoney

nothing small
should distract
from the living

stealing what
should be the joy
from each moment

from tasting
rewards of large
wholesome experience

hesitate not to
accept whom we are
in our circumstance

pale are beginnings
long since become
inconsequential

what matters is
how we move forward
inventing our ends

too precious is
time to be wasted
on wondering why

the small question
whose answer is
always irrelevant