Ng Rippel Poet Iambic Pentameter

Totality

weighing the total sum of existence
is not a skill which is given to us
lying well beyond realm of human minds
even those of prophets and wunderkinds
requiring eternal omnipotence
along with very dogged fixedness
on the tracking of every single change
within unending universe of strange
perhaps why all the gods are too busy
to notice devotees in a tizzy
over all who will not follow their rules
deride and treat them as self-righteous fools

certainly some will call this blasphemy
which should result in incapacity
removal of the right to live and breathe
to do any ungodly thing I please
while others may react slightly more gentle
needing to indoctrinate this fellow
fill me to the brim with scriptures and verse
before my condition becomes much worse

coming right back to the totality
that driving need to measure all which be
inevitably to count, sift and sort
that which their true religion should abort
keeping it all very crisp, neat and clean
creating an accounting-of-souls dream

I for one have no evil scheme or wish
within the sacrilegious pond to fish
fully content to not bother the gods
measuring of totality and odds

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David Kavanagh August 11, 2022 at 1:04 PM Another fine poem NG, just because some people don’t bother the gods, and speak freely, should never be considered as sacrilege, but I really think sometimes you underestimate what humans together with computers and AI will achieve at some future point, if we don’t destroy ourselves in the process, I enjoyed your poem, cheers David