Verisimilitude

[saw]

there may be a man somewhere
that is closer to the truth.

he may be sitting cross-legged
on the side of a Nepalese mountain
staring at the sun,

he may be running through
the Amazonian rain forest
in an animal skin loin cloth,

he may claim to converse with
blackbirds, or he may lie with holy men
behind ancient stone walls.

can verity come to us if we chant
the right words, is Sun Myung Moon truth ?
is truth spiritual or corporeal, or a bit of both ?

does this man drink gunpowder tea
or fermented agave juice,,
does he chew on the sprigs of hay

or the button-like tops of small spineless cacti ?
is he a fellow at the university, does he claim
to possess the divine right of kings, or is he

the self-proclaimed expert on the Divine Comedy ?
can we rein in our prejudices,
how about our superstitions ?

is the truth in Hollywood, how about the Oval Office ?
can master builders be trusted with our well being...
how about master minds ?

there may be a man somewhere
that is closer to the truth, but maybe

just maybe, we are journeymen
looking for something that will never be known to us.
perhaps the best road map to carry in our hip pocket

is the doctrines of the Greek Skeptics.

[mnaz]

I remember after the first Gulf War, some wise human on the radio asked if perhaps we might now take the horrors of foreign war too lightly, now that we had destroyed Iraq's hapless army. The U.S. was invincible, untouchable, all-powerful-- it seemed so absolute. And absolute power tends to corrupt.

Truth? That can be tricky, and I don't know who is closer or closest to the truth, but violent human interaction based on fear, ignorance, arrogance and deliberate fabrication seems a good place not to look. Sorry. I guess I'm a one-track mind today...

[saw]

thanx mnaz...yea I tend to write in themes that come to me and lock in for a few days...and I think my comments follow that flow, as well