The Question

"Are we here yet?"
Confined in her car seat,
Karina wants to know.
Almost three, she doesn't quite grasp
The finer points of "here" and "there."
She only want to know
If this long car trip is soon to end
And so she asks again:
"Are we here yet?"
And what a question that is, almost existential,
For the answer can only be "Yes."

- Kay Carlsen