Limited: Being Human

Limited: Being Human

To be human

Is to be limited:

To a body

That will someday be dead,

A perspective

That cannot see it all,

And to a brain

That will stumble and stall.

This is our life,

Though we may dream of more;

It is what is,

Despite the myth and lore.

But to be God,

Is to transcend all that.

To go beyond

All the this and that.

At least the God

Of monotheism:

The divine ground

For objectivism.

But other views,

Like polytheism,

Don’t have that ground

For a realism.

Only a mind

Can make reason and right,

Can give purpose

That can bind the world tight.

Without one mind--

That does it for the whole--

Fragmentation

Permeates every soul.

Without a God

There is no Reality

No Truth to find

No Rationality.

Without those things

The most we can hope for:

To be human

With its limits, no more.

It’s our limits

That help it all make sense;

Between the world

And us, makes recompense.

To know it all

Would be to know too much.

Schizophrenic

At least a touch.