Are us humans but programmed fools?

Are us Humans worms in ‘earthly bin’
lacking in context, perspectives
experts only on the ‘mud’ within?
Not sages, at best detectives?

Are we about ‘volition’
conclusively assured
or merely apparition
just anxiously allured?

Is ‘understanding’ a joke cruel
just nothing beyond illusion?
So perhaps I’m but a programmed fool
deeply tangled in confusion?

Still blessed in earthly life when in peace
when restraining ourselves from caprice