The I Don't Know Hole

Because we don't have to know everything.

Now a vacuum is something that Nature abhors.

It’s not one to acknowledge a void.

If there’s ever a spot

In which something is not

Then Nature gets really annoyed.

It will go to great lengths to fill in such a blank

With whatever approach it is able.

It will seek to replace

An unoccupied space

‘Til the balance of stuff becomes stable.

Human knowledge abides by a similar rule

When cognition encounters a gap;

We refuse to maintain

Such a gulf in our brain

So we stuff it with ludicrous crap.

So when something occurs and it can’t be explained,

Or we see, hear or feel something odd,

Then it’s aliens, ghosts,

Or it’s heavenly hosts,

Psychic powers, dud chakras or God.

What is it that makes us impatiently jump

To conclusions so clearly absurd?

Why are people so prone

To escape the unknown?

Why are flimsy delusions preferred?

What’s so hard about leaving some things unexplained?

Is uncertainty really a foe?

When our own perspicacity

Reaches capacity

Why can’t we say “I DON’T KNOW”?