Faith

Some folk believe in fate and destiny

Say it caused all that was and will be

And don’t give God any slice.

It is their general sentiment

We’re all Big Bang and accident,

But the two do not jive.

If you have no God, no Divine,

Everything a freak of time

And nothing guides your life.

No God, no immortal scheme.

No earthly hope or cosmic dream

No reason to be alive.

If you wish to be an Atheist

Then you must forsake every myth

And accept a world of strife

Without reason, without rhyme.

Where human life’s not worth a dime

With no goal for which to strive.

Oh what a pathetic breed

If we are but mutant seed

Our worthlessness be rife.

I don’t know about destiny and fate

And have no proof on what I await,

But in God I will abide.

Illustration: “Hecate or The Three Fates” by William Blake