The Universal Expert

                         The Universal Expert

I understand all the workings of the brain

And all the human psyche can do

All of the soul’s many mysteries

I’ve worked them all through

But each time I look in my mirror

I wonder

Who on earth are you?

I have studied every creature’s behaviour

And memorised their DNA

I know all their social patterns

How they work and sleep and play

But as I study all this interaction

I wonder

Why my friends all went away?

I have mastered every language

From Cherokee to Basque and Dutch

Every shade of hidden meaning

Is grasped in my linguistic clutch

But as I read your farewell letter

I wondered

How did we lose touch?

I can tell precisely

Where the galaxies are tonight

How sub-atomic particles act

And the properties of light

But as I gaze into the dark sky

I wonder

Where my daughter is tonight ?   

                                         

                                            WILF 07 2008-07-15