nearly the same is mattered mastication
thinking like chewing needs some tooth
just like a rational reasoned rumination
for gaining nourishing thought of truth

Descarte would welcome what's for dinner
well balanced in hedonism and discipline
take hearty thought began the beginner
desire to know all things is not sin

he thought he knew what made him René
what was to his mind an obvious thought
it could not have been any other way
was the deeper meaning that he sought

into arithmetic space he laid a grid
Cartesian coordinated analytic geometry
still, so much more he said and did
today places you and I to the Nth degree

modern philosophy begins with Descarte
as back from dark ages civilization came
a firm foundation to make a fresh start
thought and reason have never been the same

spiritual leaders took a more heavenly stand
what perplexed then, obvious now of course
he overcame with logic, on the other hand
remember to recall Descarte before de horse

recollect his best mantra "Cogito ergo sum"
"I think, therefore I am" his wisdom become

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