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Living finite lives in the infinite

Perhaps in wanting to understand 
We must abandon wonder
Whether willingly for the sake of rigour and strength 
Or unwillingly surrendering to the unexplained 
In those bylanes in order to explain 
We study, observe dissect 
Practise reductionism to the last atom 
After that when the head rises up again 
Devoid of wonder, innocent lost 
It sees natural vastness 
Sigh, explains it as infinity
Perhaps an expression of its own exhaustion  
Having played with the tiniest 
It has lost the power to comprehend 
The abundance of which is only a part

Copyright © Shelly Gandhi

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