TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD
Corvallis, August 20th, 2021 – P#754
how it would be
if finally we
could claim to comprehend
whatever it is
that daily surrounds us?
are choosing we
to blissfully ignore
all that life has to offer
in joy and in pain,
in bliss and damnation,
in promise and anguish,
in safety and danger,
both heaven and hell?
in this all-twisted world
you cannot have one
without the other
for too long a time
the path of life
if long enough
will lead us through all
in spite of our bestest intentions
now, seeing all this,
do we then choose
that knowledge is better
than ignorance?
once knowledge we choose,
how much of a Faustian bargain
should willing we be to sometimes embrace?
or should we yield to ignorance,
or blissful non-awareness,
how much are we willing to lose as well?
and once we are done,
how much of all that understanding
will stay with us in what may still come?
just like moments in time,
we are fragments of life
thrown in the maelstrom of strangest existence
thinking we need to make sense of it all
to understand the world
may lead us to knowledge
to highest achievement
and yet
we are mortal
and that which is eternal,
may care it or not,
might care just enough
to take note
of all our attempts
erratic they may well be:
so that something survives
at least as a memory
for the idea
that all this could have been in vain
is certainly not an understanding
we ever will be
prepared to accept
and yet
to truly understand the world
may ask us to do so
nevertheless
Erratic Attempts 