First I noticed the interesting illustration with the trick wording.

And then, based on the timing of the poem I thought of the childlike nature of most of the population that hasn't grown up beyond childish behavior and localist thought. Leaving the rest of us wondering… Why?

I know the answer and it's very simple. Modern society coddles most people to the point where they don't think for themselves except when it comes to personal things like the cost of the things they buy every day and the irrational fears that come out of pastimes like social media, sensational headlines, and even fake or trick studies leading to the wrong conclusions.

I once stood watching Niagara Falls with a doctoral student I had with me. He said, "I wonder where all that water comes from?" He is now the retired Prof. and Dean of the School of Technology at Kent State University.

Yes, the weather is changing. But we should no longer ask, Why? We should know.

Ron

This is brilliant! I read it over and over.

You have highlighted the profound question WHY in such an interesting way, beginning as you say with insistent children wanting to know the reasons for things. But not just children, we too want to know about the "mystery of the unknown", a question that we pursue all of our lives, until, in the end, perhaps we finally do know.

You've penned a profound, simple conundrum that is in the hearts and minds of many today... perhaps like never before in their lifetimes. and then the voices of children, be they chronologically child or adult children, that like a dog with a rag toy, you can't take it away from him, or her. Our infantile base of asking and learning takes on different forms as we experience more and more of the years falling behind us. Yet... the "Why" is ever present.

As usual, you've taken an abstract position of a fundamental reality and given us more invigilating ways to consider if we are truly getting all we can out of life without hurting others. Kudos, Diana. Another winner.