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A Philosophic Dialogue
2 min readJun 25, 2019
The Nihilist:
Tearing, gorging,
Merciless Death —
What is Life
But endless suicide
A paradox of slaughter to survive?
Plow and sickle
Fang and claw
The just scales of Natural Law?
How can we savor
The bird’s song or flower’s bloom
Knowing their fate
To be stricken and consumed?
If Darwin’s doctrine be believed
What good has Man’s ascension served?
Still he remains under beastly curse
Lurching to Oblivion in the Reaper’s hearse.
The Idealist:
Cease the ravings
Of carnal mind
And the Infinite plan you will divine!
What appears to the natural eye
Only to acquiesce and die
Transmutes to rarefied state
As seers of old did testify
And Science’s theorems do imply.
In Evolution’s upward march
