why

[thisnewday]

it's an unhappy thing
that a person
can live on
this way
without love;

imagine doing that
for a period of
years, say,
without food,
without water,
without conversation,
even;

but some of us
go on and on,
forever, it seems,
thirsting,
starving,
hardly speaking;

until, one day,
we realize:
it's become the way
we live
our lives
not even thinking
to ask why...

LPK
8.12.7 (a)