A poem by William Bronk

poem-today:

Something Matters but We Don’t

In man, I can see no substance solidly;
it is as if  what we call man were no more
than an oddly angled look at something else.
Or is it my limitation, being man,
not to be able to see whatever is there?
And aren’t these two alternatives the same?

Let me leave off speaking, unknowing as I am,
but not before I speak of the limits of speech,
or tell of   man that there is nothing to tell,
or tell of   what we discern perhaps there could be
to tell that we know too little except it is there
and, if anything happens, it must be it happens there

and not to us, not by us: good
or evil, it doesn’t matter what we do.

William Bronk

1918-1999

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