Gregory Richard Barden Poet Free verse

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Senseless Sentience

Oh, soul!

Such glory!

Yet such tragedy ...

What a splendid canopy!


What an incredible tapestry above!

An endless and expansive sea of suns!

When I look to the stars my heart aches so,

It aches with a yearning that will NEVER be sated,


A longing far more intense than any other I've known.

200 billion galaxies, each with 200 billion stars of its own,

Literally countless upon countless wonders and possibilities ...

Innumerable vistas and lifeforms and exquisitely unique happenings,


Almost EVERYthing imaginable, that NO sentient eyes will EVER behold!

Phenomenal things that no intelligent being will ever be able to appreciate!

Why has SO much curiosity been placed out of reach above our heads?

Why have so many marvels been put where we know they exist,


And yet placed beyond the realm of our realistic access?!?

What an extraordinarily immense TRAGEDY that is!

And it tugs on my soul like NOTHING else ...

The greatest curse of the human race


Is that we have been given JUST

Enough acumen to realize just

How much we'll never realize,

Just enough awareness


And insight to grasp

The vast amount of

Knowledge and

Wonder and


Marvel that

We'll never

EVER

Know!

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Frederic Parker August 24, 2017 at 1:33 PM beautiful thoughts, great insight and we would do well to contemplate your questions, yet from the perspective of an ant couldn't the same questions be asked of our world...just a thought Gregory Richard Barden August 24, 2017 at 4:29 PM Yes, Only the ants haven't been given the intelligence to appreciate beauty - that's the difference and the tragedy - we've been given JUST enough intelligence to realize how much we'll never realize, ants are perfectly happy in their ignorance. Thank you for the comment, my friend! :-)

Susan Palli August 24, 2017 at 8:38 AM Can feel the infinite power of the Grand Creator of the universe! Well done! Gregory Richard Barden August 24, 2017 at 4:29 PM Well-said, Susan, and thank you so much!

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart August 24, 2017 at 7:57 AM I'm so there :) fantastic pen my friend xomo! Gregory Richard Barden August 24, 2017 at 4:29 PM Thank you, Maureen - blessings! :-)

Michael Tor August 23, 2017 at 11:10 PM I guess Greg that our God is the only being that can appreciate all the wonders you mentioned. Captivating thought of immense imagination. Gregory Richard Barden August 24, 2017 at 4:31 PM Indeed - the clay realizing the mastery of its manipulator ... it seems such a tragedy to me, for I long to KNOW what this Universe holds. Blessings!

Susan Ashley August 23, 2017 at 9:49 PM OMG Greg! I love this 'out of this world' write. It is exquisitely mused and no one else could have mused this but you! Absolutely gorgeous in thought, word and form. Poetic bliss. Love It!! :) Gregory Richard Barden August 24, 2017 at 4:33 PM You are so very sweet to me, Susan, and I SO appreciate your wonderful comments ... the kind things you say often make my day! Blessings to you, and happiness, too! :-) <3