For Gene Brewer, the Creator of K-PAX, Robert Porter and prot

Life is hard.                                    
We are toiling painfully
With determined desperation
With tears and bitterness

With fear and agony and
with strong doubts  that we can even go on!
With Human tenacity!
With Human  skill!
With the cleverness of Chimps
With bigger brains.

We are building a better Universe
And evolving into
What Love becomes
When Love is beyond comprehension!

Science and Faith are fiery lovers
Dancing a tango all through Time
Hugging and parting
Grasping and rejecting
Whirling and twirling
Fighting as fiery Lovers fight
Shouting and slapping and flinging things!

The Neighbors shake their heads in exasperation!

In lulls between the fights
They hug together
In the velvet darkness of the Universe
Embracing with their mutual love,
Gazing with shared longings
At the far and friendly stars!

They embrace with passion
In peace and desperation!
With one small remnant of hope
That things can somehow be better!
Out comes a brawny Love Child!

Growing as a Seed to entwine the Universe!
Doing what all life does:
Getting bigger!
Getting stronger!
Learning!

Playing as all Children play
With the pretty Universe!
Wondering!
Wandering!
And becoming more and more!
What a sight when His muscles grow!
What an Einstein when His mind does!

In time as all good Children do
He prepares a place of rest for His Parents.
Brings them Peace at last

For Life is hard
But then we die….
And then we get to enjoy it!