Timeless Enigma

by
Phil Cerasoli

The older I get, the more I find myself wrestling with this unsolvable riddle. (Not that I’d be any the better for it if I were to unravel the mystery).


      TIMELESS ENIGMA
      by Phil Cerasoli

      Religion wages conflict
      With scientific mind.
      God and evolution
      Confused and intertwined.

      Did we first leave murky waters
      To crawl upon the sand
      Or breathe our first in Eden
      Underneath God's loving hand?

      Did we struggle through the centuries
      Just to face a mindless fate
      In a dark eternal vacuum
      That awaits beyond death's gate?

      Or does the trip have purpose?
      A time to grow and learn?
      A harbinger of afterlife
      Where joy and passion burn?

      These questions without answers
      Turn us, in a way,
      Into walking contradictions
      As we waver day to day.

      Wanting heaven's promise,
      Yet so afraid to die.
      And, in the end, it leaves us
      To sit and wonder why.

      Why is it, then, that we are here?
      Why must we scale this cliff?
      But no-one has the answers so
      We're left to wonder if

      That dark foreboding landmark
      Waiting 'round the final bend
      Marks the end of the beginning
      Or the beginning of the end.

      Copyright 2001 - Phil Cerasoli

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