Perplexity

Perplexity

When one tries to imagine our world as it is
Full of complexities and assumed rationalities,
Too many disparities, analogies and formalities,
An intricate web of formidable trivialities.

Pronouns, junctions, adverbs and dichotomies,
A tangled, spangled barrage of calamities.
Hume and Kant, Aristotles and Socrates,
In search of the truth, meaning and probabilities.

Compelling and fuelling, wild rushing philosophies,
Proposing discovery of all our hypotheses.
Far reaching mind sets and piling uncertainties,
Dogmatic realities, incessant contingencies.

And while there are allegories and some similarities
Their forms are subdued by recurrent anomalies.
Answers, solutions and all possibilities
Are never a match for the certain hypocrisies.

And so when I think, in all probability
And consider the value of my perplexity
The incomprehension of our humanity
Continues to vex me, forever and endlessly.

Lara Damiani, 1992