Crossroad of Reality and Fantasy

Crossroad of Reality and Fantasy

(Is Rationality a Mask of Reality?)

Dr Abe V Rotor

Nature's art: Cryptobiology

Mural background Underground  River of Palawan, by the author

What leads reality to fantasy, we surmise;

     the saga of the Pied Piper of Hamlyn,

Jules Verne's Kraken, Loch Ness monster,

     from fantasy to reality stories rise.

Nostradamus prophesy, Malthus' theory;

     the Bible - fiction, science, tales, all

mixed up in archives and social media

     where one is led to think and feel free.

Scientific protocol: Koch's Postulate,

     Linnaeus' nomenclature, Mendeleev's,

computer prediction models of today,

     Quarks and Higgs Boson as of late.

To where do all these lead us, we ask,

     after moon landing, soon to planet Mars;

if fantasy a means of escape from reality,

     then rationality is but a fateful mask. ~

Martian landscape by the author 2019 ~