IF

He asks When?
as if it were all
a matter of timing,
as if the immediacy
or lack of it
somehow really mattered.
She would never ask that
but would want
to know who.
She's far too polite
to ever ask why
preferring to replay the scene
in her eye's mind
allowing for a thin
veil of mystery.
each wants to know
how the other found out
but neither has
the slightest idea
where this all began.