I've Watched Men Pray

I've watched men pray
To non-existent gods
Created by their own imagination,
Fighting to death for their validity,
And saw what fools some men can be,
For this is a world which seems,
Yet never, ever is,
Composed of strings of pulsing energy,
And this, again, may not be true,
For the reality we seek
Is far beyond our poor philosophy.

If, god forbid, some gods exist,
We do not know them,
And, strange enough, the more we learn,
The greater does the puzzle seem,
And in the end, only as agnostics,
Can we be true to ourselves and say:
This wondrous universe and man
Are miracles beyond our ken.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2006 Alfred Charasz