Elementary

There is something deeply hidden, concealed in subtlety A stalking contradiction, inverse causality There are sounds in the silence that question the real Something stirs beneath reality I have found that my patience is tainted I reel in the wake of quantum subtleties Should we choose a Hebrew fiction From deciphered papyrus scrolls? Or peruse Mayan predictions Culminating in our woes? Should we heed to old conscription To ignore the facts at hand? And loose faith to contradiction Or should we try to understand? With finer resolution, we see things that should not be The growing controversy leaves little chance for Thee In the face of abject contradiction We are told to believe In historical tradition We plot our soul's telemetry How simple the hidden meanings filter out for me And reinforce the need to know how this has come to be There is so much more to know than was ever in our dreams Answers beget more questions hidden in the seams Everything is plausible if you embrace the irrational Your god is possible, He's just not fashionable Is my soul nothing more than neurochemistry? Are my feelings just stored electricity? The only thing holding me is the force of gravity Otherwise I would fly from this simple form It's elementary The fray of fact and falsity Makes no real difference If Fate makes all decisions Then what is left for me? Nothing I can see I pray it not to be I would prefer to be free If Real Time is infinite There is no exigency If my fate is Heaven sent Then what is left for me? Nothing I can see I pray it not to be Free will is hypocrisy We construct a perfect ending with PRESCIENT poetry Prophetic ululations in three part harmony A single photon alone in a glowing hydrogen sea Why should a universal mind take notice of me? Is my consciousness more than biochemistry? Is your presence real or a fragmented me? Are my feelings more than magnetic circuitry? Oh, I cling to this simply norm It's elementary Is there something in store beyond my physicality? Or is my need to believe just hopeful alchemy? Can these answers be found through further scrutiny? Asimov's Final Question is elementary