When Intelligence Forgot Wisdom

A reflection on what we lost when we became clever.

We have reached a strange point in time, haven’t we?
We’ve never known so much, yet we seem to understand so little.
Our ancestors walked barefoot on the ground that fed them,
and somehow, they were healthier, happier, more whole -
without supplements, screens, or subscriptions.

We’ve mistaken complexity for progress.
We’ve built the world higher, brighter, and louder -
and somehow, in all that light, we’ve dimmed.

Maybe it’s not our stress or our schedules that break us, but the very
distance we’ve built between ourselves and the soil.
So, this is not nostalgia; it’s a reckoning.
A small act of remembering what was true before it was “improved.”

When Intelligence Forgot Wisdom

We were created barefoot, naked.
Ate what God provided.
Contentment the rule of the day.

Sin stepped in, full of promise.
Blinded us, drew our eyes
from the God-given path to the man-made one.

We built what was never broken.
Wrapped ourselves in fibres not of the field,
lit rooms the sun had already blessed,
and filled our bellies with what we could not name.
We called it clever.

Unnatural became normal.
Plastic light, plastic food,
plastic faith in plastic things.
We paved over the pulse of the earth
and wondered why we felt nothing.

Now we chase sleep in bottles,
buy calm in capsules,
and call it health.
But the ground still waits,
barefoot and forgiving.

For wisdom never left,
we did.
And she’s still there,
in the soil,
whispering the secret we forgot,
you were already enough.

Author’s note:

The more I see, the more I believe this - our undoing didn’t come from evil, but from excess.
We’ve tried to outsmart the design, polish the divine, and package peace in plastic.
But wisdom isn’t for sale. She’s outside, waiting for us to take off our shoes.

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