Published: Art With Words Poetry Quarterly, March, 2006
(Italian Sonnet) If men all spring from one, as now they claim new studies prove beyond a skeptic’s doubt, will those who scoff at God rise up and shout to argue still with bated breath the same, or hold their stance within a twisted frame? Perhaps this news* the devil’s lies will rout as truth itself slides home with heavy clout, and fraud or pretense slink away in shame. Which one of us would snicker up our sleeve, but hope the world will reason well and long and cynics ditch their purpose to deceive? For if by one God has wrought the throng and through his Son made effort to retrieve, the premise now for man’s belief is strong. *National Geographic reported DNA studies which prove all men descended from one man about 60,000 years ago. Not reported in mainstream media news.
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