Short Determinism Poems

I was born a thief
a liar
a fornication
an adulterer
a murder
a sinner
why, then, am I punish

Because you have a choice...

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Are we just meat and butter
Dull slabs for the cutter
Do genes contol hiddenly?
Have we no power or free will
What science concludes
Is fed back to it on a loopy chain...

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White horses unsure of flight
they unfurl before dawn
they had their chance
alone in colours
The man of gentle voice
was only asking for a choice
They sang of emptiness
epoch making expanses
of self determinism
their forte...

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young people taught to believe
that once they learn repetition
they're ready for the out-world

s..t happens: just the universe

it matters not whether a god is
a peculiar determinism matters
of peace, love and of letting go


stan sand...

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An effect without a cause	
A bolting into being
Is anathema to reason	
A delirium or dream 

Proximate – and ultimate
Phenomena exclaim
There is one rule inviolate -
Determinism reigns

The implication staggers -
Our will constrained, unfree
Yet if this be so
How can reason be?...

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I am acetylcholine
I am self-aware

I am norepinephrine 
I am energy

I am serotonin 
I am emotion

I am GABA
I am pain

I am dopamine 
I am pleasure

I am an ancestral soup
Of neurochemical harmony 

My steps are predetermined 

There are no choices
There is no truth

Faith is superfluous 
Hope is an illusion 
Love is obviated


I am


11.26.18
For Atheist contest sponsored by Anthony Slausen...

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Why is it so much harder
to lose than to gain?

Why does what we don’t possess
plague us so much, while all we have
is so abundant?

Is it a kind of Darwinian determinism?
Determined to hunger for what we imagine?

Gratification devolves into disappointment 
in an instant.

Like food fed into a grinder,
Pulp recycled into new hungers.

If I could lose my hunger,
Maybe I could lose my loss?

©dbyrne jan 2014...

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