Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The New Tower of Babel

We know about each other more than anyone has need,

From credit score to appetite to last time that you peed.

This priceless information can be tabulated so

It predicts consumer trends or fav'rite TV show.

This flotsam and this jetsam on our roiling cyber sea,

This superficial landscape that is sculpted carefully,

Lulls us into thinking we have gained the upper hand,

That wisdom, understanding, are now something we command.

Build your tower out of facts and figures, graph and chart;

It will fail, since only God can know the human heart.

We know about each other more than anyone has need;

Our knowledge is as slender and as hollow as a reed.



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