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Without Looking Within

In the sea of swirling dust that is our infinity Held together by the breath of Divinity Infinitesimal microdots are we Yet megalomania rules our see. Do ants blindly view themselves as lords of their world In their intricately marshalled social whirl? Does the Higgs Boson,if it exists, Boast worlds invisible to our questing wits? Majestic laws govern our creation With life's jigsaw of interconnection Which mere accident cannot explain In the welter of our cosmic pain. Marooned on a piece of grit We fondly believe that this is it. We can solve the mystery of our fate As Dawkins and Hawking blithely state Improve our instruments to deeper fathom Into the once indivisible atom Enhance our telescopes to peer further into space Life's mystery aye remains to bewilder our gaze. It is in our DNA always to explore But no matter how deep nor how far Our scientific knowledge we advance Life's mystery aye leads us a merry dance Yet we must to our nature be true In trying to find a clear way through So that we stand proud,tall and justified But we still remain small and mystified. Relative is time,the conjuror, With its tricks of smoke and mirror In a world that seems so solid While shimmer its particles pellucid. Our senses feel that they truly see But we cannot know reality.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 5/2/2011 9:02:00 AM
A very perceptive and searching write. We look ever deeper outward and inward, but (clever though all this might be) we seem to get further away from God, somehow.
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