Zero-Echelon Poem by Jordan Legaspi

Zero-Echelon


Man…
Image and likeness, humility and pride
-the head and the heart, master
-the love and the hate, endure
before knowledge and wisdom collide.

Myth…
Pantheon of face and fame
here and beyond-everywhere
of the tale, now and forever
before faith and doubt consume them.

Poetry…
Beauty and beast like water and wine
of the spoken, unknown mysteries
beyond tongue to tell the stories
before the end of err to man, of god is divine.

Philosophy…
Awe and wonder to the beyond
of the was, the is, and to be
reality- the cross of diversity
before what birth and death will amend.

Science…
Theory and praxis; fact and fiction
discipline, branches of its kind
study- the account of proof, grand
before question and answer reached its conclusion.

God…
Horizon, wide and full of expression
symbol and sign both rich and poor truly
to capture nay; to posses cannot be
before time and space, mystery, comic’s devotion.


Note:
The author believed that the journey of man starts from myth and ends up to science. The reality between birth and death is however, the account of man’s life- the connection/relation of man and God. The Zero-Echelon speaks about the development of this relation. The man’s attempt in answering/explaining the reality of things including his and God’s existence, but cannot be put into the absolute-truth, is simply the principle of cosmic evolution (each day is another account to continue-complete the creation story to reach the “Omega point” as Chardin in his book Phenomenon of Man stated) .