Philo-sophia Love of the deep, love of the fire From the cave to the stars, from the dust to the higher We spit the question, we ride the wire Philosophy forever the eternal desire Pre-Socratic dawn Thales staring at the sea Everything water first spark of the free Anaximander’s boundless apeiron flex Heraclitus laughing while the river connects You can’t step twice fire in the flux Parmenides frozen in the One that never bucks Empedocles love and strife in the mix Democritus atoms dancing in the sticks Then the gadfly land Socrates barefoot in the street Know thyself midwife of the incomplete Drink the hemlock with a smile on the face Truth over life dialectics in the space Plato’s cave shadows on the wall Climb the line Forms shining over all Aristotle cataloguing the real and the right Golden mean walking between day and night Philo-sophia Love of the deep, love of the fire From the cave to the stars, from the dust to the higher We spit the question, we ride the wire Philosophy forever the eternal desire Stoic steel Epictetus in the chain Some things yours some things not master the pain Marcus Aurelius writing in the night Meditations dripping under Roman light Epicurus garden simple and free Fear of the gods nah atoms and me Plotinus One overflowing the All Mystic ascent beauty’s soft call Medieval nights Augustine restless heart Our hearts restless till they rest in You art Aquinas five ways climbing the ladder Faith and reason locked in the same matter Then the rupture Descartes in the stove I think therefore I am the cogito drove Spinoza substance one infinite God Leibniz monads singing in perfect odd Hume woke Kant from the dogmatic sleep Categories slamming phenomena deep Hegel’s dialectic thesis clash antithesis Absolute spirit walking through the synthesis Schopenhauer will blind and dark Nietzsche hammer God is dead spark Übermensch dancing on the abyss edge Eternal return the heaviest pledge Existential sweat Kierkegaard leap of faith Camus rebel pushing the boulder’s weight Sartre freedom nausea in the café Heidegger Being thrown into the day Wittgenstein ladder throw it away when climbed Language games silence when the mystic’s timed Foucault power Deleuze rhizome flow Rawls veil Singer expanding the moral show Now the silicon age neural nets dream Still the same hunger still the same theme We ask the machine the machine asks back What is truth the eternal attack Philo-sophia Love of the deep, love of the fire From the cave to the stars, from the dust to the higher We spit the question, we ride the wire Philosophy forever the eternal desire The love of wisdom never dies It just changes the beat Drop the next verse philosopher The agora is open
