Why Not? Poem by RIC BASTASA

we will never know
unless we try it.So?
Here we are, in the
limited now, let us
try it. Who are you?
what are you? You are
warm and pleasing.
You are whole and
human. What is your
name? From where are
you? You are whole,
warm and pleasing,
I am human. Discard
the questions. They
do not matter. We
are human, we are
warm, the night is
cold and we are too
pleasing. Why not?
The night is cold
and it will not be
that long. Come.