Hell In the Stars

Hell in The Stars



Befool yourself into believing
In words
And fool yourself into thinking
You’ve heard “the” word

All of our knowledge
Is designed by human hands
Look a little deeper
Look out towards the stars
We are planet bound
The same as a plant inside its pot
Still we know the galaxies are there
Just like a pot plant comprehends
Its nature is to live
In a field

It is the demonstration of arrogance to believe
That we have the answers to everything
The greatest mystery
Is how all this came to be
Yet you define it with your books
You even think that in your words
You can capture what it is
That breathes
Eternally

What are the stars to you except imagery
What are they to you but romance
What are they to you
Other than a figment of your imagination
What do they represent
Nothing more 
Than your 
Denial
   
What do we wake up to be
This planet and our own mediocrity
Or do we wake up
To feel all the suns which we call stars
And the entire expanse of creation
Witnessed
In our eyes

Do we understand that Hell
Is as much an aspect 
Of heaven
As is everything else
A planetary definition made by limits
Does not define
Reality


  And I know; being challenged
  you will turn to your books of faith.
  I know you will turn to each other, for support.
  You will look towards the comfort of an easy excuse.
  A human explanation of what humanity can’t explain, 
  you will turn away from 
  the evident proof of your eyes, yet again.
  You will choose to deny the stars and every portent they contain 
   and instead; look towards a heaven
  which simpleton faithlings say belief cannot resist.
  While creation happens all around you
  you will choose
   not to exist

 Give it another Prophet and another thousand years
 For your stupidity
 To stop up your eyes and your ears

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Poet Destroyer A

Date: 6/7/2010 6:12:00 AM

Talk about a bad perception and will you have of life. still here is a nice Sweet Sidney, asking what did i do to you, as if I care hahahah : ) Thank you Colin I am enjoying all the useless comments you are leaving me. I will return them with lots of love. May I ask what John did to you. I get it he does not leave you any sweet comments. He probably does not like bullies like you. I 've got to go. And comment your fun poems, take care,..love SId,=poet destroyer

Yoni Dvorkis

Date: 7/23/2009 3:42:00 AM

this is definitely a good challenge to induce in all the faithful believers to shake them out of an apathetic state of mindlessness,though personally I feel you're making just as many assumptions as they are on creation and existence.none of us can prove anything.you put your faith in your senses and the world around you,they put their faith in their simpleton heaven.Nobody is actually faithless, they just put it into different places that validate the way they feel.thanks for sharing yourself.

Yoni Dvorkis

Date: 7/23/2009 3:30:00 AM

in case you haven't figured it out yet we all do this to confirm ourselves.otherwise what's the point in a site that allows users to comment on each other's work.some of us sound nice and gentle and some of us sound bitter and depressed.either way it's more interesting to me then a counter of how many hits we get to a page so I've stuck with it no matter how many strange strangers comment on my stuff, and there have been quite a few. still I'm curious what he wrote that pissed you off so much...

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 7/18/2009 1:18:00 PM

This write reminds me why you are one of my favorite poets, Colin. Some folks look at the stars and have no desire to explore the possibilities our universe contains. Your open mindedness in this poem defines you as a master explorer, one who is willing to check out all potential explanations. As always, you have truly inspired me. Love, Carolyn