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A Young Sage's Odyssey

September 22, 2014
By MikeLiberty GOLD, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
MikeLiberty GOLD, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
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I did once converse with Life.

“Life, why is your cruelness of such magnitude?”
Life answers with the precision of a besotted archer.
“Your curiosity is of equal magnitude. From where does it spawn?” 
I replied metamorphing my thoughts into speak
“Why must you plague me with obnoxiousivty?”
Life replied as repetitively as a child infatuated with a phrase.
“Your curiosity is of equal magnitude. From where does it spawn?” 
I eyed this talk would capitulate in a race to a drowsy sloth but I did not falter to continue.
“For I seek understanding.”
Life cares not for the ambitions arising in the messy minds of mortals.
“Understanding I have not,”
And casted me adrift on the currents of time and space.

 

I once had a conversation with Science.
“Science, why does following your tree trunk lead one to so many branches?”
Science replied in a thousand voices echoing down a tunnel
“Why are you not?”
I sighed but alas I replied
“I thought your forwardness should be straighter than that of Life.”
Science replied
“Debatitivity is my true essence.”
Dumbfoundedness did descend upon me so I began once more.
“I am but one human who--”
Science interrupted impatiently.
“One human. One human cannot comprehend me,”
And casted me adrift on the currents of time and space.

 

I once took time to talk to Time.
“Time, I sail on your river. I eye all directions but see neither a beginning nor an ending.”
After some time Time timidly answered.
“When shall you end?”
I attentionlessly answered and would once more fail.
“I will meet my mystery end when the… time comes for it.”
Time replied wittily
“So will I.”
I then cleared away all things.

 

I consulted My Mind.
“My Mind, why will nothing in existence give me a straight answer?”
My Mind replied in a soothing piano of a voice.
“You know a lot of things but not everything.”
Triteness trecked over my toes and ceased my conversational momentum but in step I kept.
“Are you the only thing that will give me a straightforward answer to a question?”
I digressed but My Mind did not.
“You want to know like any sage.
However asking direct questions to even the concepts themselves reveals nothing.
Use only me.
Trust me.
I know you can know.



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