Higher Mammal

Higher Mammal  – June 26, 2012

Where are the heroes?

What happened to the brave?

Courage seems too rare

Honor vanished and gone

Moved by nothing

Except selfish pursuits

We throw away eternity

Sell it for finite possessions

Seek for security in a job

For peace in a home

For love in a significant other

Eyes on all but the creator

Settle for the mundane

For life with no adventure

Predictable days with little risk

And for nothing to aspire

Don’t believe in the eternal

Nothing but a higher mammal

Born, learn, breed, and die

Hope but an abstract thing

Never asking why there’s a hole

At the center of our existence

Never filled and never satisfied

Always left wanting

Somehow blinded to our need

Believe ourselves good and yet

By what standard are we measured

A deep question for a mammal

Wake up and look back

Over a life gone by

Wondering where did it fly

Terminal existence pricks us

Searched for answers

But rejected them all

Grave causes desperation

Hope waking in renewed thought

Start the questioning again

Creator waits and is unafraid

No question being stupid

With eternity on the line

A toast to the seekers

For those who seek truth

Unsatisfied with weak humanism

They find truth in one so named