POETRY

False Assurance

A Quatrain Meditation on Epistemological and Existential Paradox

Image: AI-generated using Adobe Firefly; Poetry: written by Tristan Robert Lange, Human-authored.

Wandering the empty shores
Lost, with no direction.
How shallow life can become
The deeper one tries to understand it.

Like a dry river bed
Discovered in the desert,
All the hopes of sustenance
Lie barren before one’s eyes.

That is the hope philosophy brings,
A paralyzing false assurance
That to think is to exist;
Yet, we think ourselves out of existence.

In reason, we have lost reality.
In wisdom, we have lost humility.
In science, we have lost mystery.
In spirit, we have lost ourselves.

© 2024 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.

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