Wonder and Despair

Wonder and Despair, Twin brothers born of our need to know; These the tainted fruits These the light and dark Born of laboring knowledge. Learning's vanities Illuminate the limits. The hard currency Of humility, The price of Nature's secrets. So we find ourselves Hung amid infinities... Below, Forever. Above, Forever. Grains on a beach, we between. We explain the world As it defines us, laughing: Creatures of a day, Playing at Godhood See our insignificance. Less than angelic, More than bestial, we strive, Sailing on our thoughts To the antipodes Of Being, on the ship named Novum Organon, Sails full of a wind of words Towards those pillars At the narrow strait Of wisdom: Wonder, Despair.