I Take you to a Land...

I take you to a land
Of singular hopes
And desperate alternatives,
Betwixt and between
I live in a world of shadows
Where uncertainty prevails,
A place which always seems
But never, never is,
Neither was or ever will be,
Where life is a pathetic joke,
Yet never really funny,
A tragic-comedy
Illusionary gods laugh about,
A passing adventure
Of no intrisic value
Which my senses perceive
But my mind rejects,
An insane chapter
Lived on an obscure planet
Composed of twirling atoms
Which on closer scrutiny
Have no substance
But are just mediums
Of time, energy and delusions,
Phantoms of meaningless events,
And yet, and yet -
There is a certain beauty,
A transcendental majesty
In this music of the spheres,
That miracle of life
Whose images will travel
Through the universe
And will forever
Linger on and on...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz