As you move along your life’s path
toward the future you wish to craft,
there strikes a paradox perplexing –
a dilemma you’re both ignoring and detecting.
If the only certainty is suffering and pain,
is existence itself not an experiment in vain?
If all is to die and become space dust in conclusion,
isn’t any meaning in life a mere illusion?
If God is truly dead, gone and left behind
is there not a gaping abyss in civilization’s mind?
But let’s for now forget society as a whole
and explore the soul of the individual alone… ...