ode to a thought

oh glistening thought

tell me you are more

than chemistry

woven into cell structure

electronically varied

by genetic depositions

in the voodoo of my biology

and apelike inhibitions

tell me you are more

tell me you are an ontology

and not just some whiff of the primordial soup

wafting through my necrology

come now glistening thought you can be blunt with me

surely you are more than a meaningless emission

an excescence of physicality

arbitrarily dialled up

by jewelling jeans

over centuries of heredity

is the wondrousness of my speech

nothing but a bullock belling in the fields

an elephant trumpetting in the forest

a batsqueak

but even these

are wondrous enough for me

cogito ergo sum

i think therefore i am

neigh neigh and thrice neigh

sum ergo cogito

i am therefore i think

tell me you are more

i need you to be more

say you are an ontology

not just some ghastly pseudopod

of relativist atheistic codology

let us be frank with one another glistening thought

if i am chemistry merely

what is your role

what is the keynote that makes you shine

and how can i ask this and be without a soul

for you an emblem of god

and yet your mine