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Troubled by a continuum of conflict with an apparent variety of causes, dominating our existence, I asked why? The answer is a question of meaning I present in a poem, a precis and an essay each aptly titled "The Last Why". All other writings are derivatives. I welcome comments and much appreciate sharing. Thank you. Doug.E.Barr

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Sunday
Nov052006

TRUTH

Rose seeds become the rose, is truth;
A constant for all living things.
So when we hear a song bird's song
It's what that song bird always sings.
Don't search in 'bones' of men long dead.
Their truths invented are all dust.
The truth that God wrote in our genes
Can be the only truth we trust.
We must "reach out..."; become our 'rose'.
Becoming less is falsity.
The truth we search for we will find,
Becoming what we each can be.

Reader Comments (9)

Every line adds to the clarity that grows in time of ourselves and our individual existences, the last line summing up all. The truth that God wrote in our genes can be the only truth we trust.
Classic music.

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Thank you. Doug.E.Barr

June 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMila

but what does it mean?

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The meaning is there. Perhaps you missed it because you were looking for something more complex. Doug.E.Barr

December 12, 2008 | Unregistered Commenteranonamous

what???????

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Sorry!!!!!!! Doug.E.Barr

October 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBen

It was so amazing to raed

March 4, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterRobert Frost

very good

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Not one but two comments from perhaps the namesake of Robert Frost. A portent perhaps? Doug.E.Barr

March 4, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterRobert Frost

I like it !

March 23, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteroviya

I like it !
Fantastic !

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Another doubled comment, with emphasis! I like it! I like it! Doug.E.Barr

March 23, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteroviya

It is a terrific allusion to the self-image respect

April 27, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterEsteban

The truth lays within yourself and your soul. Not in what you are told or you have learnt but in how you feel.

June 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterpete

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