The Habiliments Of Wisdom Poem by Raymond Anyanwu

Religions are the habiliments of wisdom. And the Almighty; the metaphor for being.
All wisdom can be understood
With allusion to the material world.
This doesn’t refute the spirituality of wisdom,
Rather the separates the spiritual from the material.

Thus, limits of reason are limits of wisdom;
The span of reason is the span of wisdom.
But experience: the background
From whence reason travels,
Shaping what reason perceives.

Faith in divine intrusion in the affairs of man
Or in eternity, or in rebirth, is belief, not wisdom.
Mystical knowledge is knowledge, not wisdom.
Arcane knowledge is knowledge, not wisdom.
Mysterious practice is practice, not wisdom.

But wisdom must be possessed,
It cannot be lent from scripture, conviction, or custom,
But must come from one's own motive
Operational within the orb of one's own experience.