An Atheist's Secret Lament
Oh, how I wish I believed! Shush... tell no one, but
I want so desperately to believe in You--
and my absent soul.
I would gladly trade Darwin and Freud,
Marx and that man who speaks only
through a computer. I would sell all of
science, and spit on proud nihilism for
a second's glimpse of your Eternity.
But I cannot believe that You exist--how,
how can you be real? To span a vast universe
to know all, to be in all? The universe can exist
without you-- it has its laws, we have our laws,
we don't need yours! We're fine, fine--
just fine....
Copyright © L. J. Carber | Year Posted 2016
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