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Ration Web
This peculiar peice has no reasl reason for being, other than the fact that I found it came easily to my mind...it does seem to echo my own trepidations about man's apparent obsession with technology, to such a point where we forget 'magic', a world of rationalistic thought where everything can and must be explained. Such a wrlds, in my estimation, is destined to a spiritual destruction...for there is still all too much 'magic' out there to simply to be explained away.
Rational Web
The tangled web of life, shattered,
Broken and torn by rational thought.
Superstition laid to bleak waste,
Torn now asunder by the 'tech' that we've bought.
Beside this dark wasteland I kneel myself down,
Praying to gods left aside by blind men.
Knowing the old ways to be in the right,
And so giving my obesiance to them.
This thing we call 'tech' heralds us on,
Rationalizing our poor, petty ways,
Antempting to answer with science unhinged
What once we called magic, what once was called strange.
Can we so easily explain it away?
Should we now lean on nothing but lead?
Or should return to the wonderous days,
When science and magic shared the same bed?
For dismissing magic is dismissing life.
It dismisses art and captivates thought,
Leaving nothing a wonder, nothing a sign,
And leaves as our reason for living naught.
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