KNOWLEDGE and ESSENTIAL FACTS

There’s ‘knowledge’, ‘knowledge’ everywhere
Yet still we don’t know how to think.
Intended to keep us afloat
But deeper into shit we sink.
What weighs us down are not the facts
We need in order to survive.
What’s drowning us are ‘mountains’ of
The ‘knowledge’ of why we’re alive.

When 50 years or so ago
My own ‘life jacket’ fell apart,
Once more I searched the ‘mountains’ for
Perhaps another place to start.
So with a failure in my mind
I searched for ‘knowledge’ that would pass.
But what I found while looking was
In fact, the' ‘mountains’ have no mass.
What we are calling ‘knowledge’ now
Was all made up throughout the years.
No matter what, we trace it back
And every bit just disappears.
Since ‘mountains’ are just all the failed
Attempts to answer “Why am I?”,
By searching them again, defines
Insanity with every try.

Now razing them reveals the fact
The start of our insanity
Was after ‘Eve’ asked “Why am I?”,
Thus gave birth to humanity.
The answer ‘Adam’ didn’t know.
Unknowns he’d fled from to avoid.
Since it remained he due to fear
Replied, thus tried to fill the void.
That it would fail he couldn’t know.
For us there should be no surprise.
Since ‘Adams’ answer there have been
200,000 years of tries.

The answer he made up I call
Unnatural intelligence.
He tried to fill the void with it
Which made no existential sense.
Activity that was his try
I call unnatural, for it
Subtracted from his life and so,
In Nature’s plan it didn’t fit.

Our Mother’s plan for us began
About 2 million years ago.
We know it was by Nature’s hand,
The reason we will never know.
Our predecessors reached out to
The bounds of their capacities,
To others, and to Nature’s God,
Our natural activities,
Exclusively until about
200,000 years ago.
By then their bodies looked like ours,
The mind of ‘Eve’ was primed to know.

When ‘Eve’ first wondered “Why am I?”
She gave humanity a choice.
While Nature was still dominant,
Humanity now had a voice.
It wasn’t very loud at first.
Although still mostly Nature’s say,
As they increasingly asked “Why?”
Our ancestors made life their way.
Though asking “Why?” is natural,
With answers, unknowns disappear
Around the void which grows in size.
So asking caused increasing fear.
Increasing fear evoked response
Accordingly, so ‘mountains’ grew.
Unfortunate it is for us
It was the only way they knew.

Had they known then what we know now
They would have seen 2 million years
Of self-creative living and
With only life preserving fears.
Had they continued to “reach out…”
Right after ‘Eve’ asked “Why am I?”,
Our life would not be sinking now,
Our limits might have been the sky.

Although it’s late we might have time
To turn our sinking life around.
However, there’s no way we can
Unless we stand on common ground.
Our natural activity
Is still some part of all our lives.
We need at least a bit of it.
It’s how each one of us survives.
But judging by our ‘mountain’s’ size,
Collectively there’s not a lot.
In fact life scientists predict
We’ll sink for sure with what we’ve got.
Unnatural activity
As said makes up the other part.
To save our lives then, razing our
Own ‘mountain’ is the place to start.
Without the ‘mountains’ in our way,
And seeing nothing but the sky,
We could become what we can be,
And maybe answer “Why am I ?”

OUR LIFE LINE
TRUMP ‘16, BIDEN ‘20 NATURE ‘24 (rhymed reason)
AGE of ASININITY (rhymed reason)
ABORTIION (rhymed reason)
ANALYZING CONFLICT (rhymed reason)
NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL (reasoned prose)
RACISM (rhymed reason)
COVID-19 vie er US (rhymed reason)
ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE (rhymed reason)
LIFE: a reaction to the void (rhymed reason)
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (rhymed reason)
ECONOMY (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: the death of us (rhymed reason)
OUR HISTORY and THE LAST WHY (reasoned prose)
THE LAST WHY: the poem (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: a debacle (rhymed reason)
AGE of ENTERTAINMENT (rhymed reason)
MY POETRY (rhymed reason)
TOGETHER (rhymed reason)
LAW of HUMAN NATURE (rhymed reason)
ALCOHOL, DRUGS, SEX and other anesthetics (rhymed reason)
RELIGION (rhymed reason)
SEX (rhymed reason)
AFTERLIFE (rhymed reason)
HAPPINESS (rhymed reason)
ALONE: an anthem for humanity (rhymed reason)
WAR on PEACE (rhymed reason)
SOLDIER’S LAMENT (rhymed reason)
JESUS’ SONG (rhymed reason)