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Inspired by Gregory Christiano's THE SKEPTIC
found at http://www.prose-n-poetry.com/display_work/13518
Written and posted with his permission.
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The center of the universe
has many and varied cores
Each discovered new ...
perfectly balanced for teeing.
One may seek the truth,
but what suits him best - even more
He envisions what he wants,
and not what eyes are truly seeing
Like a child, he thinks
the world revolves around him
Like a cat, he believes
he’s every reason for all things being
He’ll refuse to see that
houses of cards are built on a whim
That rhyme nor reason
are ever forced into fleeing
Like the three pigs
without the third who thinks clearly
He sets cards
upon a foundation that’s carefully posed
Holding his breath
before the vision he’s asserted sincerely
Hoping for dear life
that the astute forgets what he knows
He seeks, he searches ...
but never really finds what he expects
Those answers to questions,
questions he has selfishly supposed
He refutes with arguments
that which he chooses to reject
Musing what’s convenient
all the while ... honesty’s opposed
The skeptic relies
on twisted words and warped senses
To support a vision
that only he himself can clearly see
He wages a war
with the dulled blade of empty defenses
And really expects
that once he’s done, you’ll fully agree
All in all and in the end
it’s much safer to believe in dreams
For fear of the unknown
creates havoc on a conscience - like mi
Starved for the accurate knowledge,
like a heart without blood
Faith and hope no longer exist
in what the skeptic cannot believe
He ceases his search
for discovering freely reveals nothing new
Few and far between
lie the answers amidst the truth he’ll never seek
Weighty arguments rest wonky
on feeble excuses without a clue
Chia Pet to Monkey to me, haystacks and needles
– the proud challenge the meek
Sensing less and making less sense
as truth belies the lie
Creation shouts a message
and reasons for ignoring it are weak
To say it honors nothing
is but a rabbit in the skeptics’ bag of tricks
A dismal fix, to try and humbly state,
“The universe revolves around me!”
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