Beginnings Know Only Beginnings

Beginnings Know Only Beginnings by Odin Roark Start Go Begin Proceed So many ways nature uses language Yet a species of intellectual wealth Decides there must be Stop End Cease Finish From where might this human twist of logic originate? Where did the denial of nature’s wisdom commence? Some might opt for the bone as weapon Where life could be ended Be it beast Or Neanderthal So might have arisen The dawn of weaponry Of pugilist mind-set Combatant possibility Ruler King Emperor Pope Seer Inevitably A child crawls to walk Walks to run Runs to reach… Bone Spear Sword Gun Missile Yes How well we’ve determined The learned antitheses of beginnings Absolving the guilty of insanity In order to hasten an end Hurriedly we await A jettisoning of existence Into what few accept As particle-destiny Another regurgitation of self-administered poison Into the beginning of another coalescence The kind we reject by thinking There is somehow a finite end Save some who anticipate a hereafter To everything So… Bring it on we proclaim How foolish the heart’s compliance When the mind’s capacity Knows better Knows well reason and passion Are essential partners in wisdom Offering alternatives And yet…