Religion wages conflict
With scientific mind.
God and evolution
Confused and intertwined.

Did we first leave murky waters
To crawl upon the sand
Or breathe our first in Eden
Underneath God's loving hand?

Did we struggle through the centuries
Just to face a mindless fate
In a dark eternal vacuum
That awaits beyond death's gate?

Or does the trip have purpose?
A time to grow and learn?
A harbinger of afterlife
Where joy and passion burn?

These questions without answers
Turn us, in a way,
Into walking contradictions
As we waver day to day.

Wanting heaven's promise,
Yet so afraid to die.
And, in the end, it leaves us
To sit and wonder why.

Why is it, then, that we are here?
Why must we scale this cliff?
But no-one has the answers so 
We're left to wonder if

That dark foreboding landmark 
Waiting 'round the final bend
Marks the end of the beginning
Or the beginning of the end.

Copyright 2001 - Phil Cerasoli