Reading time: 15 seconds
I’m afraid it’s going to take longer
Than your allotted fifteen seconds
To convince you that you should
Increase your attention span so as to
Accommodate those matters that are
Packed with more meaning and importance
Than you can glean in such a short time.
The very fact that humans cannot all agree
As to what is just and righteous
Should stun us into a great pause
Regarding why it is that we each seem
To consider these matters to be simple enough.
There are three reasons (at least) that I can’t serve on the School Board. The first two are because I’m a freak, and the last one—well, I’ll tell you at the end, if you read that far.
When they swear me in, they’re going to ask me to take an oath to support the Constitution. But I’m not going to take an oath I can’t keep. And if I don’t take it, they won’t let me hold the office—even though the people voted for me. And what they expect of me is simply to lie like everybody else. But I won’t. So that makes me a freak.
Continue readingSome are all for being good
Until it comes to standing up
To the bad people of this Earth.
And that’s where they draw the line.
They take no for an answer
And retreat to a lesser
Fallback position—
Still heroes in
Their own
Minds.
Even if Artificial Intelligence takes over the world,
God will still judge you for what you have done
While in the flesh, whether good or bad.
He could love others, perhaps,
If he thought it would fill him up
Any better than being loved by others—
And by himself, of course.
He desperately needs my help
With errands from time to time,
As he’s sick, can’t hold a job,
And has neither car nor phone.
If you’re going to have faith, then get on with it!
If you’re going to have faith, you don’t need to have some sort of affirming interaction from God every five minutes. That’s not faith; that’s either worry, or it’s severe immaturity—and neither is good.
Continue readingHe was a genuinely kind man,
Which, at the time, struck me
As simply normal—
Life having not yet taught me
How rare a thing it actually is.
It would make sense to me
If in heaven it takes some time
For the newcomers to decompress
From the pressures of this weary world.
