More questions than answers

Funny how we can see life as hum-drum

Consumed by our mental worlds of screens and memes, the themes and likes and pressures to be ‘normal’ and on-trend

And lead by an AI that deep-down still feels pretty dumb

Have we forgotten the intricate, seemingly miraculous tapestry of life and who we really are?

Our journey from the ooze, the biological zoos of the family trees, the fittest bees, our answers to why, and the more-than-once evolved eyes

 The astonishing myriad steps and our fundamental connection with the stars?

And why do we seem to pursue things that lay afar and out of reach?

Missions to the stars, flexing bigger cars, the holidays abroad, a stretch we can’t afford, the haves and the have nots, what we think they’ve got

When strange bacteria live on my rooftop, and an immeasurably breath-taking world lays right beneath our feet

And when was the last time we truly thought about what’s inside?

This thing called a brain, and that we’re just not the same as the ‘awesome’ parallel process that engineers profess is giga-flops faster and Moores-lawed from last year, but we all know is nowhere near

The jaw-dropping complexity that nature trots out laying deep beneath our eyes

And what if I supposed we’re the very best of life-forms that nature could offer?

But in a huge complacent farce, in this whole universe so vast, we worry about hair lines and  finances, dates and the people we berate, and the cold dinner plates

And we’re so consumed by minutia that sorry, we’re just not too bothered

And this man without answers isn’t even sure it’s just all evolution

For all the scientists and scholars, the high and the mighty, the philosophers and professors, the brains greater and lesser, I just dare to live in grey with question marks each day

And I really don’t want to start or be in any religious revolution

Maybe we should just ride the waves and let questions lie open?

It’s bigger than we’ll ever know, why sweat all this difficult stuff before we go? Learn to live in disarray, embrace the mysteries that meet us on our way

Why not just enjoy the ride, sailing this wide, beautiful, wonderful ocean?