The Educated Fool --- My poetic journey

I have been through the halls of Academia,

       into the heights of its glamor and Fiction,

I have roiled in the broths of Mentality,

       to the battlefields of Contradiction.

I have raced headlong into the sciences,

       that were not empirically true,

Chasing the Phantoms of Knowledge

       down corridors of myopical view.

I recall that it was Galileo,

whose grand view was Heliocentric,

Bogged down by the binds of Ignorance,

       in a time deemed too eccentric.

I’ve delved my spades into Archeology,

       prodded the lives of ancient History,

I’ve aroused the spirits of Revelation.

I’ve been awed by the sense of Mystery.

I’ve seen through the eye of Hubble,

       into the realms of Heaven’s keep,

I’ve gazed to the frontiers of Eternity,

       light-years by the billions deep.

I’ve read about nucleosynthesis,

the forging of chemical bonds,

And how atoms combine to make everything,

       the gold, the silver, the bronze.

I have seen the madness of the mathematician, dividing Finite into Infinity,

Left only to ponder and question,

a paradox of Divine Divinity.

I have seen with my eyes all the evidence,

       I have walked on the sands of the shore,

I have studied the greatest of philosophies,

       from the days of the ancient and yore.

I have held in my arms the phenomenon,

       of Life in its myriad expressions,

I have felt at the heart of great Consciousness,

       the forces of spiritual possessions.

I have been to the edge of Extreme.

I have walked in the light of Joy.

I have journeyed to the realms of Discovery,

beyond the reach of what Time can destroy.

I have envisioned my final conclusion —

       Light shines on the burdens of Proof;

I believe that all things, by God, were created,

       to be the revelation of ultimate Truth.