Saturday, August 24, 2019

Life's Essence


Life’s Essence

We think we’re so smart
Yet we really don’t even know what life is

Sure you can boil and pipet
You can microscope and experiment
You can hypothesize, theorize

We can discover

Oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose
Neurons, mesons, electrical processes
DNA that tells us everything
Fourteen complex reactions for every photon
Processing it into vision
A hammer and nail, tapping morse code
Turning it into electricity and then to sound

We know all of this
Yet we can throw it all into a bucket
And not have one nanogram of life in the mix
All the ingredients
Simple, complex
But not one ounce of spirit

All of this material can exist in a corpse
But cannot regenerate itself anymore

So what is life? What is it for?

The scientists and philosophers have their own ways of knowing

But I like the poetic answer:

We don’t know

But it surely looks and sounds and smells and tastes and feels

Like love

8/24/19 kdc

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