I Am Done Writing Poetry

I want to be done---
But there's so much work to do.
My brother says I am "idle"
Because I can't fold laundry;
I can't saw wood;
I can't paint a room.
I tell him about Onesimus.
"So you looked it up."
Not exactly---
I had read Philemon
And typed in Onesimus.
I then went down a rabbit hole.
I thought maybe my reader would
Like to go down it with me.

Writing books is endless---
I do not wish to write and write,
And never earn a living.
That is what they wish for me.
I love my family,
But they are possessed with a demon
Which deems my credible work as useless.
I---says my brother---do not contribute anything to society.
No... I just discover the laws of Morality and Nature---
I communicate them to you.
You, my readers---
Who will soon be many---
Will see. I have discovered secrets.

The secret I am most interested in,
Right now, is the principle of Algebra.
There are yet mysteries I am unknown of.
How, I will bet, the reason there are two answers
To a square root, lies in the axioms of Pythagorean Theorem.
Or, really, of empirical data. As, that's how Maths are invented.

I say "Invented" but can maths truly be "Invented"?
In the narrow sense, I guess they can---
In so far as our knowledge will never be complete.
But, any invented math is not a math I am a friend to.
Unless the math is rooted in the truth---
Rooted in Logos---
I wish to have nothing of it.

I wish to have a friend in Richard Dawkins and Jay Vernon McGee.
I wish to tether Christians to reality,
And dissuade them from magical thinking.
As, the Farmer's Almanac clearly proves the Earth is a Sphere.
There can be no doubt about it.
Thus, Christians, the Earth is Old, and Evolution is true.
This doesn't say God can't exist.
It also doesn't say Jesus cannot be that God.
This silly debate rages---
And I've seen less converts
And more refugees
Made from it.
I don't think Dawkins or Tyson are mad about Christianity,
But rather the fact that Christians deny clearly established science.
Ought we?
I've seen God when I died---
He does exist.
I miraculously was reconstructed when I arose out of the waves.
I saw Satan in his black hood on the beach---
I've seen a woman heal a deaf girl
I've seen rivers run as blood
I've seen children's eyes go black as pitch.
Just, I'm leery of falling into the trap of simplistic faith
That Genesis is somehow to be interpreted as literal history.
Some of it, yes.
The tower of Babel I like to think is a crude Space Elevator.
The Flood has historical significance---and I don't think it was a tsunami.
As, then why would both Japan and Mesopotamia have it? 
Two tsunamis? Three? Multiple tsunamis?
Less than likely. I think there actually was a global flood.

The world is shrouded in mystery.
Philip K. Dick---as smart as he was---
Was delusional.
And when I start believing in science fiction concepts
So do I become delusional.
I believe, therefore, it's not true.
As, why would something true cause delusions?
That's where I would disagree with scientists.

Simply put, I don't know everything.
But, I try to be as thorough as I can.

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