Boundless curiosity

narrative verse

Boundless curiosity

 

The world is full of mysteries.

 Colossal buildings left behind

 by earlier societies.

Their purposes still ill defined

 

Although the archaeologists

 advance their favourite theories.

The mysteries will long persist.

Their different hypotheses.

 

Cannot be proven any way.

 They’re based on their experience

Of living in the world to day.

A different frame of reference.

 

Which cannot possibly apply

They saw the world quite differently.

I do not think we can deny

We’re blinkered in the way we see.

 

The evidence which we can find,

We can’t interpret properly

The artefacts they left behind

Their uses are a mystery.

 

  Though we attempt to classify

 we can’t be sure we are correct.

 These relics from past history

aren’t always what we would expect.

 

Temples and Tombs or Palaces

The truth is that we do not know

Secular or sacred places .

There is no evidence to show.

 

That we can state with confidence

confirms our modern theories.

We have no point of reference

With which everyone agrees.

 

The arguments rage to and fro

As experts wrangle bitterly

They daren’t admit they do not know.

Although they don’t quite obviously.

 

At best an educated guess

 Must be the best we can expect.

 From experts trying to impress

The other experts I suspect.

 

It seems to me improbable

That we will solve these mysteries

Our mind sets aren’t comparable

 as different as chalk and cheese.

 

But still we are compelled to try

 because these monuments exist.

Our boundless curiosity

 will not allow us to desist.

 

Saturday, 24 April 2010

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Reviews

[Doreen]

Oooo I like this. Curiosity killed the cat..... I love the message in this. It reads very well. Your writing is a joy to read.