Some, myself once included
wonder where time and space began
for all things must have a beginning
if they are to have an end
as we are certain we will too soon.
I don’t stop and wonder why
that matters, how knowledge would
change anything at all.
Species we have rendered extinct
would remain so, Van Gogh’s paintings
would see no less beautiful,
Beethoven’s carefully crafted notes
would not suddenly flee from his symphony.
Does the scientific method demand
such an inquiry or are we just
looking to make everything explainable,
everything to accept what labels
and constraints we choose to put on them.
Or is it simply that being creatures
of finite lifespans we want to know
that the universe is forced to play
by the same rules that govern our lives.