endev42 - documenting the meaning of life
Edward Lucie-Smith
Date of Birth: February 27, 1933
Date Submitted: January 15, 2018
Religious Affiliation: Agnostic
What is the meaning of life?
Basically I think what we call (life) gets bigger & most mysterious everyday, as our knowledge of the physical universe expands—the micro-cosmos as well as the macro-cosmos. So to talk about (meaning) is often off the point.
Poem 1: Dreams
Dreams of immortal life and glory,
Let my friends take them when I go.
As for myself, I chase the darkness –
I would prefer to have it so.
Poem 2: Yes
The birds and the fish
Don’t mean much to me
Except as things
I might occasionally
Want to eat.
The supposed paradise
I spent my
Formative years in
Has faded from memory
And lost its glow
Oh, but the city! The city!
The infinitely multiple
Human species!
New forms emerging
Every day.
In old age
I walk out,
Renewing myself.
How sad,
How good
That this will continue
Long after…
Yes, long, long after.
Yes.