No secrets?
Know It All
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December 31, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.
Seeing a Universe
...by Pat D'Amico
Wouldn’t it be awful
to know all there is to know?
No mysteries to tackle—
no progress we could show.
The universe and life and death
all tied up with a string.
No secrets buried in the earth…
not one single thing
left for us to contemplate,
explore, expand, or mull.
Brains would shift to neutral
and the world would be quite dull.
Pat D’Amico is a columnist with Northwest Prime Time, sometimes a Sharing Stories author, and sometimes a poet. This poem was published last September in http://lightenup-online.co.uk.
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