FAIR QUESTION

Originally posted September 10, 2023

It is only a cry 
from birth to death,
a cry as brief 
as a moment’s breath,
a song that rises
in a single note
only to sink 
before it can float.

How many of these 
does he create,
the one who makes 
but never mends,
and why continue,
it’s fair to ask,
when he knows 
from the start
how it all ends?