RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS
The Summit of
Knowledge (Revised)
We are a unique species
Unique to the experience of life on earth
We are driven in the pursuit of knowledge
We have invented language to that purpose
We have invented writing and the printing press
We have invented science to reach higher
in the quest for understanding
We have invented the arts and philosophy
to reach beyond the limits of science
We have invented computers and
advanced technology
We have invented and invested in institutions
of higher learning
We have pushed and prodded the depths
of human comprehension
Higher and higher and higher we reach
until at last we have breached the very
summit of all knowledge
and we have come to this conclusion:
We know nothing
We have always known nothing
We will never learn for there is nothing
to learn beyond the simple facts
of life and death
We are here and then we are gone
We are alive and then we are not
We may choose to be good to each other
or we may choose to be cruel
It is better to be good.
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