My ignorance is abysmal,
Learning magnifies and makes it worse,
Education paints a vague picture of its depths,
Knowledge broadens the scope of its breadth,
And the more I know the more I know I don't know,
Knowing satisfies the quest,
Supplanting with greater hunger and thirst,
True knowledge fills a void,
And leaves a bigger one,
Ignorance is a vastness of pitch darkness,
Wisdom is the light,
I pray I will not be the proverbial frog,
That looked up from the well,
And concluded in cocksure certainty,
That the sky is the circumference of the well,
The real mountain top of knowledge elusive,
Surreal yet real,
One may reach it,
Yet it keeps growing like an active volcano,
Death's the grand portal to its true peak,
That last path... the last climb is through the grave,
The path to knowledge in its fullness,
In the grandeur of the dual experience of life and death.
All of a great unknowns suddenly don meaning like a royal garb.
Brussels © March 2015 afesehngwaHilary
