HOW FRAGILE IS MAN
How fragile
is man in constitution
Like a
creature without divine design
Evolved
through naturalistic process
Without
omnipotentcy’s strictures.
Noble in
reason in his own mind’s eye
As maker of
gods in his own image
In action
how like them, and they like him.
Petty,
petulant and vindictive.
Made but
little higher than chimpanzees
Crowned not
at all by divine glory
Not shaped
from clay, but proteins and sugars
A product of
eons of slow shaping.
Glory enough
is this, if one allows
Taking awe
at rude shaping by nature.
Even if a
Humean abortion
This life,
nonetheless, is still a wonder
Cosmic
quantum nothingness, after all
While it
might guarantee something starting
Gave continuation
no surety
The
abortion, if you will, could have died.
Marvel
existentially, then, will you
At this
Daoist moment in time, so brief;
It, you, and
I, may not have more breath.s
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