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Inside this cave, my refuge, nave
I bend and stretch and breath, 
to find myself among the ruins 
of ancient places, faces, and history. 

Although I strive to change the tide
of my own motivations,
something akin to a Zephyr wind
has me returning to old foundations.

Cornerstones, above the bones 
of ancestors crying out in vain,
“I too once lived, loved, and looked above,
beyond mountains, clouds, and rain.”

Within my walls I read the call
of (by far more) learned minds, 
who looked beyond their own demise, 
to future points in time.

Beyond hate and war, the kind that tore 
humanity apart at the seams, 
cataclysmic, apocalyptic,  
nightmare scenes.  

Socrates knew, as Plato too
but they were only the beginning, 
of a line of thinkers, knowledge drinkers,
all of them underpinning.  

How we should live, think, act, and dream      
From day to day and night by night,
great thinkers lived that they might give  
a more beautiful, brighter, shining light.

Their list is longer than King Tut’s curse
and all the books throughout the earth 
could never touch 
their individual or collective worth.

From Pythagoras to Parmenides
Democritus to Hobbes, 
St. Augustine to Aquinas, 
Ayn Rand to John Rawls. 

From Thales and Anaximander,
Homer to Thomas Kuhn, 
AL-Ghazali to Maimonides,  
From Budda to Sun Tzu.    

From ancient days to modern ways 
of beckoning the questions how and why, 
Inside this cave, my refuge, nave,
I bask and ask, the Oracle at Delphi.

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