The Moment of When

When does the answer know to go looking for the question?

When does the artist know to set down the brush?

When does the cowboy know to hang up his hat?

When does the song know to stop singing?

When does the tide know to turn?

When does the rain know to stop falling?

When does the spider know to complete spinning its web?

When does the breath know its last sigh in time?

When does the silence know to speak?

When does the writer know the work is complete?

When does the caterpillar know it's going to be a butterfly?

When does the egg know to choose the sperm?

When does the lover know it too is the beloved?

 When do you know to stop searching for something you have?

When do you hold on and when do you let go?

When do you tell and when do you show?

When does when arrive in the Now,

If Now is timeless. Then,

Is when already written?

So it is Now… and when.