Beyond our ken for M'lady Bubo

A poem in triplets Iambic tetrameter

Beyond our ken.

 

Mans boundless curiosity

 is not and will never be

satisfied sufficiently

 

He can’t accept the status quo

There is so much he wants to know

He is obsessed and can’t let go

 

 He seeks for  knowledge constantly

 but is not wise enough to see.

There is no end there cannot be.

 

Compelled by curiosity

Inventing new technology

 to try and solve the mystery

 

Of who and what and why he’s here.

But he is doomed to fail I fear.

New questions constantly appear.

 

The more he learns the less he knows

Although his stock of knowledge grows

His understanding of it slows.

 

The mind of man can’t comprehend

 The quest for knowledge has no end.

We fool ourselves if we pretend.

 

That there is nothing else to find

and everything has been defined.

A fact to which I am resigned.

 

Though I’ll continue to pursue

each and every smallest clue.

I have no choice I’m compelled to.

 

Sunday, 18 July 2010

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