Beyond The Sky

Does the busy ant look up and see

A giant man walk by?

Could it understand a house or car or

Airplane if it tried?

Does a fish in an aquarium

Have questions it can ask?

Or will it ever be unable

To know the world beyond the glass?

You say, unlike the ant or fish,

We understand all that we see.

Perhaps then you’ll explain to me:

“What is infinity?”

In the midnight hour we cry out

To understand our plight

Before the silent universe

Extinguishes our light.

Did perhaps the ancient prophets

Know much more than we?

Have our gods of science and progress

Truly set us free?

Can it be a cosmic accident

Has placed us here on earth,

That courage, love, and honor

In the end, can have no worth?

No! Pick up the dusty tablets

Though others fear and hate,

We can only live the life we love

And leave the rest to fate.

If the Creator grants no answers

To these things before we die

Pray we’ll see it all so clearly

And we’ll meet … beyond the sky

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