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# The Path
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-path/
- Published: 2021-07-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: less than the gods but closer to them every day keeping conflicting impulses at bay our vegan buddhas, and our intermittent fasters our astronauts, their multi-billionaire masters our mountain climbers tickling the sk...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

less than the gods but closer to them every day  
keeping conflicting impulses at bay  
our vegan buddhas, and our intermittent fasters  
our astronauts, their multi-billionaire masters  
our mountain climbers tickling the sky  
the scientists extracting how and why  
our dancers, breathless beauty to behold  
our sages, writing stories to be told  
the gods within, we touch them every day  
each of us capable, if we just find the way  
oh sure, the beasts within, they do remain  
our pantheon is insolent and vain  
we’ve set the ceiling high for our old gods  
but might just get there, despite all the odds

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**Author notes:** wc 102 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784436-Human-paradox