Renaissance Man

The Renaissance men are no more,
Gone - the men for all seasons,
The creative giants from before,
No more Da Vinci, Mozart, Freud, Einstein,
Those geniuses close to the divine,
Gone - the poets Homer, Dante, Shakespeare,
Never, ever again will they appear,
Gone - Socrates, Plato, philosophers who last,
The venerable masters of a glorious past;
We now depend on specialists for our progress,
Who know more and more about less and less,
And all our creativity is now confined
To a more pedestrian, moderate kind...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2006 Alfred Charasz