Exploration innate?

 Tuesday 17th October 2023

I have rewritten my effort from the previous post:

Exploration innate?

Mankind’s ascendancy achieves the moon walk and the atom split.

I too have that inborn urge, but less ambitious mine.

An unexplored tarn, nearer home than moon.

Those sapient genes dictate. I must explore. 

Impasse: bramble,  chest high reed and blocking trees,

No tarn to see.

Those genes accept but take control

Compelling further search beyond.

Distant, a stag lonely in the landscape .

He ambles  as if in thought, to the field end and gate.

He stops. At three field's distance I  hear him think.

Time pauses. He shuffles back . His haunches gently lower.

As  if weightless  he floats over the defenceless gate .

The gate now lifeless and insignificant below.

I watch him  on his thoughtful way, five minutes or so,

And wonder what  innate impulse drives HIM on his way?

We humans, (and perhaps my stag,) aspire for knowledge,

And by chance, along the way receive gratuitous rewards.