How do we measure time? <br />the day brings <br />a profusion of orchestrated sound <br />the night's stillness- <br />sings canticles to the dead <br />while the living <br />are trapped in partial death <br /> <br />My mind - <br />a melange <br />of melancholic molecules - <br />a shiver of constant vibration <br /> <br />I am caught up - trapped <br />in a plexus of emotion <br />and anticipation <br />I live apologetically - <br />ill at ease <br />on the razor edge of time <br /> <br />A brief subtle snap; <br />abrupt capitulation into <br />the unknowable <br />Cataclysmic? No! ! ! <br />At least - I don't think so <br /> <br />Seamless? <br />Sometimes it appears so <br />but who knows for sure? <br />Has anybody returned <br />to tell the truth? <br /> <br />When the moon is at its zenith <br />I meet my doppelganger <br />I look him in the eye <br />searching for answers <br />There are no answers - <br />only questions <br /> <br />Theories galore; <br />Karmic laws; <br />natural laws; <br />indestructibility of energy; <br />heaven; hell; purgatory; <br />metempsychosis; last judgement <br />Who knows? <br /> <br />We theorise; hypothesise; <br />fantasize; <br />we rave; we rant <br />we lie, we kill <br />we commit heinous crime <br />because we believe <br />that our belief <br />is the ultimate truth <br />It's as far as we can go <br />we can't go any further <br /> <br />Our biggest <br />and most grievous sin <br />is to live in an inner void; <br />to emasculate our souls; <br />to accept and encourage <br />emptiness as a way of life <br />Collapsed wings, <br />we sit circumscribed <br />in our material realm <br /> <br />Everything in life <br />has its antithesis; <br />everything about its <br />aftermath <br />is vague - ambiguous; <br />wrapped in skeins <br />of inscrutable mystery <br /> <br />Self appointed messiahs, <br />preachers, priests, <br />clairvoyants soothsayers <br />and half clad holy men; <br />all heave their shoulders <br />against an iron wall - <br />in vain <br /> <br />Humility, prayer, penance <br />denial on one hand <br />greed, deceit, <br />material mongering, <br />megalomania <br />on the other - <br />bundles of paradoxical <br />contradictions<br /><br />leonard daranjo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/epilogue-7/
