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Open Poetry #38

I Don't Understand.

ballajosue
Junior Member

since 2006-06-04

Posts 45
Ca, Us

0 posted 2006-08-06 02:03 PM

Why man is so fearsome of
things which it cannot understand.

My natural reaction is curiosity,
in comparison of that of a baby pressing
a TV remote’s buttons for the first time;
If i don’t understand something,
I’ll press every button until the understandable
is understood.

So i ask myself, why are most others
historically known to take the opposite reaction?
Is fear genetically defined in our natural
biology to act out against the unknown?

Or am i just an alien, or god forbid,
maybe I’m gifted. I never was in G.A.T.E.;
for long that is.

Fear is something we all fear
an invisible paradox
in describing and defining itself.

So many have suffered for the misfortunes
of others’ inability to understand
a certain invisible art with huge scenic proportions.

This thing called understanding is no different from coal mining,
they’re both on assignment, to unearth a diamond.

Still man fears the worst
of being overthrown by the unknown
but fear not, because if you don’t understand,
then you don’t know, and if you don’t know,
then it doesn’t really exist.

and all is good, you could go back
to continue living life in your cage
and continue to be disgraced of being a descendent of an ape,
for it too is ashamed of producing such an ignorant thing.

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sandgrain
Member Elite

since 1999-09-21

Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA

1 posted 2006-08-06 06:47 PM

Interesting write. Now, I do hope you don't take the same "push every button" approach with a new car or an unknown device to see what happens. I have a new computer and because I probably couldn't afford the repairs, I avoid what I don't know until I learn how to use it. In my estimation, it's healthy fear, but there is paranoia, too, that freezes one from ever learning. Perhaps everyone's line between the two is in a different place.

Rae

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

2 posted 2006-08-06 09:30 PM

ahhhh... I push every
button too and lots of times
I mess up and get hit in the head
but that's kind of the way it is

I love this

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