Presumptions and Truths
With presumptions, not truth
Searching through our youth
We thought the crystal world would splinter
Into iridescent fragments
And spin us dizzily far into space
to face what might be emptiness
So naively formed, was innocence
We vainly sought with logic's eyes,
a dream to make us come alive
From thoughts we shaped from small cocoons
We leaned against the wind
and let it scoop us up too high
reshape our words, and let them fly
We hoped to toss them where they could
and resolve the problems of the world
....
From all the thoughts we sought to claim
Were we so ignorant of what is real?
What determines how stars will swing
Or how an eagle's wing, remote and sure
Can bring strange longing to the mind
Where power beyond the known is ours
to seek and find and come of age
How long we stood, and now remember
How changeless is a planet's power
Glimmering in search of answers
And still not wringing the answers from the slightest sound
.........
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