The Best Thing

Kurt Philip Behm

To believe or deny,

enlightenment dares

Our lack of acceptance,

a three-legged chair

We feel it and breathe it,

and live it de jure

As minds are left gasping

at something so pure

At this very point

rejection sets in

Our spirit’s attacked,

the reasoning thin

Millennium’s secrets

will come and will go

But what can’t be explained

—the best thing to know

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: December, 2020)

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Trenz Pruca December 21st, 2020 18:40
I loved the rythm.
- Kurt Philip BehmDecember 21st, 2020 18:54
  Thanks Trenz
L. B. Mek December 22nd, 2020 06:11
somehow as I read, I imagined Socrates nodding along with me:
'But what can’t be explained
—the best thing to know',
a write to remind me of those words of pure wisdom bequeathed to all of humanity by truth's gadlfy himself:
'I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.'
Happy Holidays dear Poet
- Kurt Philip BehmDecember 22nd, 2020 11:57
  Ah, the magic inside your mind LB.
  
  Thanks so much
  
  Kurt

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