Timeless Enigma

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