You Only Think You Know

 

It's All In How You See It, Portsmouth, NH, July 2018, Nikon D600 with FX 28-300mm VR lens,
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