Faith or Control?
One sometimes questions their own faith
(Which they should): Is there really a god?
Will snow ever cover the ground
This year? While memory dictates
The snow will return, it still
Questions the intervention of divinity.
One cannot prove events were not chance
Anymore than one can prove they were not.
But certainty dictates that one must be so
It’s quite contradictory to say one does know.
Yet men and women continue to teach
Children that all is true, though out of reach
Of mere man, but these precepts are how
God says we should live as written
In books they can’t even read
And the circuitous route to belief in God
Can often come off as some kind of fraud.
Can we assume belief is inherent
When existence of God is not all apparent?
The truth is it’s faith, not certain,
Just as written precepts are hid by curtain
And someone certainly controls the show
That’s not of any god that we might know.
January 2024
About This Poem
I wrote this a little over a year ago and I don't really think it's ready for release, but here it is anyway. I have been questioning the role of religion in the government lately and how there is a growing trend among politicians here toward Christian Nationalism. It's in direct contrast with our constitution which they swore to defend, but until we vote them out we are stuck with it. As a Christian, I don't believe there can be "Christian Nationalism" for the reasons I describe in the poem. So while the poem is in its infant draft form, the ideas are relevant for now. And the picture is out my window this morning answering the question that yes, snow will cover the ground this year on March 17!
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