There are shades
you cannot imagine
that you’ve never experienced
or your eye just can’t discern.

There are things
beyond you
and me
and humanity
like a dog whistle
or a bottom feeder
or the planet Glooki 9.

There are the ephemeral
the sublime
the indescribable
that we will never understand
and asking “why”
is like asking “when”
or “forty two?”

The answers
are just as useless.