Alan

For seventy years you say
You watched the world grow better
As Gays were accepted, but the Bible 
Reduced people's empathy.
I did not. I, instead, saw love grow cold.
I saw people grow insanely selfish and shallow
Conceited, cold, callous, callow, vain, superficial,
And at the very end, that's why I'm a Christian.
Every Atheist I ever talked to
Denied flagrantly there were morals which were universal.
And as the world grew starved of love
But had a full belly like at Sodom,
My neighbors grew cold,
And my peers colder,
And my family colder still...
I have all the evidence I need to know
That when the Bible was believed
And I mean truly believed
The world was, indeed, a better place.

I watch the world grow ever colder---
Yes, people enjoy more material things,
And have more sensual pleasure,
But at the expense of love.
For they are all selfish,
Like a D. H. Lawrence novel.
And cruel.

Rather it is Christians who were always empathetic;
True Christians.
But I can be empathetic only to a point
As I watch people destroy themselves
For worldly lust and lucre.
And all are lonely, Alan.
Do you not know the plight of my generation?
Everyone is lonely.
You grew in an era with the Law so therefore Love
And I without.
And so my generation is lonely
But yours wasn't.