Poetry Or Science? Which Should It Be Given Priority? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Poetry or science, which should
It be given priority,
Poetry or science,
Science or poetry?

The humanities,
Languages and literature and philosophy,
Social sciences, history, political science,
Sociology and economics,
They have a base of their own,
Referring to art, culture, society and economics.

In literatures, emotion and feeling
Put down on paper and inked
Are done with,
In philosophy, the things remain so
As the past of man in history
And today's political science tomorrow's history.

But science is science, based on fact and fiction,
Logic and reasoning,
There is no lie in it,
Nor is any scope for that,
No variation from,
The reading almost same.

Literature and any other other subject
A bundle of contraries and contradictions,
But here is no scope for any deviation,
Plus is plus, minus minus,
The base of science is stronger
Than that of arts
And it can save life
Whereas arts will remain
As a mute spectator of that.

The litterateurs are but liars,
Maximizing and minimizing the things they see,
But the men of science
Though may be cold to emotion and feeling
Are the people of close analysis and observation,
Depending much on brain-work and mind-application,
Good at calculating intelligent things