Within our pulsing sphere of warm, gray, flesh, A ceaseless ebb and flow of words and shapes And forms breaks upon the misty shores of Our awareness, and brings to all who bear The hallowed blood of Adam, a free and Unique essence, called soul. Our lives are filled From cradle to grave with the mortal task Of finding a frame and structure for these Swirling thoughts, and thus is born our deep and Burning drive for knowledge, for entertainment, For art. Yet this precious gift which falls to All in unequal share, sparks amid our Hearts the fires of greed and hate and lust as Well, and all throughout the ages in the Pages of history it is clearly Seen as part of both the purest and the Vilest acts of man. And so we live our Numbered days with this golden burden which Is truly ours alone. The brutes that tread This world with us have not the width nor breadth Of sense that stirs within the sentient mind Of man. They do not grow ambitious for A speck of gold, nor strive to paint their pictures On the wall. The trees that live a span of Years that puts to shame our brief and fleeting Time, stand mute, and dumb, and dreamless. The flowers, In their brightest show of color and scent Have not the splendor found within the dimmest Thought that twigs at the mind of a babe. And the ever endless universe, in All its gleam and glory, shines a light unto An emptiness until it comes to rest Upon the sight and soul of we who are aware.