The Mind

Memories, so unlimited,

Memories that are intimate,

A gift from the One who created us,

A fire to the one who tames us,

It encapsulates our cynosure,

Treacherous in times of exposure,

Unbelieving during juvenescence,

Unyielding during senescence,

A wall in times of innovation,

A flood in times of deprivation,

Amusement collaborating with creativity,

Worry manifesting calamity,

Uncharted are the lands we go,

How different from what we show,

Tendencies are what we study,

Yet the science is still quite muddy,

There are more factions than one can bear,

More places than one can stare,

I do not seek, but yet I find,

There is something magnificent about the mind

---Shaheen Matuni