QUESTIONS

Quarks and red dwarfs

wouldn’t exist,

you might say,

without them,

the instruments of science.

Questions, framed

just so, and deftly employed

are like microscopes

and telescopes, eyes

into the human spirit.

They allow us to see

realms within ourselves

we might otherwise

be blind to.

So think twice

before you offer up

ready-made advice

to someone lost

in life’s mystery.

Where listening

and curiosity meet

is the quantum

mechanics and cosmology

of self-discovery,

a music of the spheres

that knows no scale.