The Quintessential Question

Today began
Today would end
Today a lifetime would pass

 

Never seeing
Never knowing
Never to be given what he asked

 

Always thinking
Always looking
Always tempered by his past

 

Slowly slipping
Slowly asking
Slowly death will come to pass

 

He asked
The quintessential question
One last and final time

 

He raised his hand repeatedly, the answer blew his mind