Who are we?
But a collective momentary presence in the vast expanse,
Seemingly limitless reaches of the Universe?
Yet, apprehending the exquiste order of it all,
Its majesty once revealed
Leaves no words to describe the absolute awe!
By no means given to any single ideology or enterprise,
Rather, transcendent by virtue of thought to surmise
What is beyond the recitations of fact and formulae.
The Eternal Truths are what’s sought.
When compelled to tell or put to name this quest,
Such ponderings, of all such things considered,
Are of the realm of the Taoist.
acii (2012)