To the Materialists, Atheists, and Existentialists

You would turn us all into puppets,
lacking the will to act, feel, believe--
making us into robots of flesh, subject
like slaves to genes and environment,
just the end result of eons of evolution.

Marx said money puled us down and 
Freud made the unconscious a power,
while Sartre told us nothing exists
beyond your pulse and when that stops,
with your last heartbeat, you are nothing.

But they are all fools, blind and deaf, who
will not, cannot see the endless mixing of
the Divine with the mundane, not feel 
the currents of the Great Mystery as It
swirls in turbulence through every life.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 5/21/2017 10:08:00 PM
Yes L.J. I enjoy listening to your poem & take what I like from every viewpoint without judgement if my security(or those around me) is not threatened...we all are existentialists...as our survival depends....this second, nothingness is real....Satre...our imperfections are universally divine...Marxism is an attitude...love the scorecard...achievement the result....greed the enigma
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Date: 5/25/2017 10:17:00 AM
Thank you, James, I appreciate your reply-- not sure I completely understand all of it, but that's o.k.-- I have come to believe that part of the Great Mystery is that each of us is a mystery to ourselves, to one extent or another. This is a round about way of say that I have come to realize after 70 years of cognition that I will never-- at least in this life- understand everything... or even anything completely.
Date: 5/21/2017 6:42:00 PM
Hi Great and deep poem. I hope many will read and muse on the meaning. Ahmed.
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Date: 5/25/2017 10:22:00 AM
Thank you, Ahmed-- I don't expect the 'many' but then it has taken me a lifetime to realize that what matters is not the ego (the greatest enemy of anyone) but that which is created, be it a poem, a life, or love that will transcend into eternity itself.
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