WISDOM

                     What is the greatest wisdom one could gain,
                     The most profound and powerful insight
                     That would the deepest mysteries explain
                     And ease the burdens of our mortal plight?

                     I think it would be knowing we’ll survive
                     What looks like the finality of death
                     And will in some eternal heaven thrive
                     While only of our suffering bereft.

                    Yet knowing this for sure might rob from life
                    The animus that drives us to explore
                    The mysteries with which the Earth is rife,
                    Created by a Source we should adore.

                         Perhaps our wisest stance is just to wait
                         And let the sacred Source reveal our fate.

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