It is written

poem

 

 

It is written.

 

Men contemplate infinity.

Which should inspire humility

in arrogant humanity.

 

Though it does not, or so it seems

but serves to inspire madcap schemes

 Which might fulfil men’s wilder dreams.

 

We have the capability

to reach beyond ability.

A mild form of insanity?

 

It may seem so but it is not

We’re not content with what we’ve got.

We’re striving to improve our lot

 

For dreams precede reality.

We search the realms of fantasy

 for how we think life ought to be.

 

We do as we were programmed to,

we have no choice we have to do

 and some of us though very few.

 

Will realise the universe

will one day go into reverse..

Although it seems to us perverse.

 

All things that start must also end.

There is no way we can pretend

it is not so nor yet defend.

 

Our claim we have the right to be.

We contemplate infinity

But most are blind and cannot see.

 

I think perhaps it’s just as well

we don’t believe the stars foretell

The tolling of the final bell.

 

Which has to come eventually

for nothing lasts eternally.

That is the only certainty.

 

When this game ends another starts

The curtain falls the cast departs

 to be recast for other parts.

 

Into a singularity

containing all that is to be.

Until the big bang sets it free.

 

20-Jul-08

 

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Reviews

[Emily Rose]

Lovely! I can see why you've got such a taste for formal poetry - you're excellent at writing it. The rhyme scheme must've been quite hard to write in (I've written poems with similar schemes before, and I've found them to be quite difficult), but you execute it very well and add a lot of meaning to your poem despite such a rigid confinement. My only critique (probably the one that I give the most often to the most people) is that I think it could be a little better punctuated: you can do much more if you let yourself experiment with commas, semicolons and dashes. The lines "and some of us though very few. Will realise the universe" stuck out to me since it seems like these lines flow into each other as a continuation, therefore you might want to consider getting rid of the period after "few."

This was an excellent and enjoyable read; thanks for sharing!