Cathedrals of the Mind

(Humanity)

Dyspraxic intellectuals

Fanaticals in manacles

Radicals with parables

Waistrels and respectables

Tyrannists and terrorists

Optimists and pessimists

Liars, self-deniers

Messiahs and pariahs

Seven billion voices in a random cacophony of id

(Ideas)

Aristotelian taxonomy

Euclidean geometry

Darwinian biology

To multiverse cosmology

Witches and psychiatrists

Hypocrites with crucifixes

Paranoid conspiracists conspiring with their enemies

Two million theories and many reliably false

Cathedrals of the mind: mankind

Designed to hide the fear inside

What clever and what tragic apes are we

Cathedrals of the mind we've made

Wrought from thoughts in jumbled brains

The folly of such brave and tragic apes

From the Great Wall of China

To the particle colliders

Conduits of power lines

We've ringed the earth and lit the sky

Legacies of donors such as Gaudi's Barcelona

Leaving actual cathedrals, impossible and meaningful

Two billion structures all covering the planet with steel

Cathedrals of the mind: mankind

Designed to hide the fear inside

What clever and what tragic apes are we

Cathedrals of the mind we've made

Wrought from thoughts in jumbled brains

The folly of such brave and tragic apes

Beatles, Wall-E, Michael Scott, Stewart Lee

And James Dean, drinking teen, the boulevard of broken dreams

Apple, the moon walk, music and New York

Quark and lark and flight and books

One trillion achievements and some of them actually good

Cathedrals of the mind: mankind

Designed to hide the fear inside

What clever and what tragic apes are we

Cathedrals of the mind we've made

Wrought from thoughts in jumbled brains

The folly of such brave and tragic apes

Cathedrals of the mind set free

With bipolar grandiosity

What clever and what tragic apes are we

Cathedrals of the mind: the Mall

Milestones of our rise and fall

What high achieving deadly apes are we

This universe will blink and die

At the catastrophic end of time

With no one left to venerate our graves

A spinning pea in empty space

No legacy, no human race

And all we ever did was done in vain