Sonnet #326

 I question the evolution of emotion

How Darwin's foolish claim was shouted down

By men who felt by God, by faith, what's shown

Who came to their belief by the sum

of the very process Darwin showed them

So, is it better for us to follow where we are led

Or to snip the tethers of the dead

examine rocks and bones, pretend

We know what we're doing with all of this --

But science emerges out of evolution, too

There is no destination to the world in bliss,

There is no safe harbor, no home, just truth

The rocks beneath our feet scrape and shape our shoes

And we scrape the rocks slowly with heels and toes