The Nature of Knowledge!

Naively schooled in Science,

           Me thought only reason

                And logic led to knowledge!

Traversing the terrains of life,

             Me realize it isn't so simple.

                                      Knowledge may always be partial & plural!

It may not be the pursued holy grail

                                      But this very land that we have been living on

                               And beyond, where we may never live on!

Myths and fiction, Instincts and intuition,

Rhetoric and religion, Experience and expression,

Science and reason, Scripture and superstition,

Ambiguity and tradition, Poetry and reflection -

                  Are all but different paths, at times 

                  Seemingly contradictory multitudes,

                     Traversing on which we can only hope

                              To grapple the vast landscape of knowledge! 

 PS: Years ago, I held reason and logic as my Gods, instinct and intuition my angels and placed my ultimate faith in humanity (Full poem where I expressed that sentiment - https://anamkal.blogspot.com/2015/01/faith-in-humanity.html). I do not perceive reason and logic with that universal position of pride anymore. Maybe, I refuse to hold anything as God!

The sheep and the shepherd

PC: Myself!

Don't the sheep know for themselves

how to survive and thrive?

Or is the shepherd any better than those

who claim to herd humanity?

Life: An ocean of infinite absurdity?

Incurable sickness, interminable sadness.
Inconvenient truths, irresolvable entanglements.
Irreparable wounds, invincible fatalities.
Maybe, this is how life is, in the long shot -
A seemingly endless ocean of infinite absurdity!

Fleeting moments, transient happiness.
Bursts of passion, impulses of creativity.
Smiles that last seconds, laughter pains in jaws.
Love that drowns and rises, cries that drain.
Maybe, this is how life is, as one zooms in -
Drowning lively islands in an ocean of infinite absurdity!