122mm, 1/30 sec @ f5.6, ISO 500, -1.33 EV, no flash © Steven Crisp
You Only Think You Know
Think of all of our human concepts,
Helpful to us in our work-a-day world,
But perhaps taking us farther away
From the wholeness of Life and Reality.
Time is one example, where in fact
There is only continuous change
Moment by inter-dependent moment
Nothing everlasting, always flowing
Matter is another, seen first as fundamental,
Even axiomatic — the building blocks of Life
But it too fails the permanence test
Not to mention, the divisibility test
We can't even explain if an atom
Is a particle or a wave or something else
This reductionism is fundamentally flawed
Life and Reality contain the Whole
Does sufficiently advanced "matter"
(aka our brains) produce consciousness?
Or 'tis it the other way 'round
Are we but ripples of consciousness?
Really, we know nothing and our castles are built on sand
Some spend their days like they spend their money
Both banked upon the felt belief that
"Tomorrow" or $$$ are the real currency
For now, what can we do, but keep chipping away
At the hard shell of our self-serving ego;
Creating some cracks to let the light in and the love out
Opening, more and more, to simply revel in the mystery
