Particles of Faith

Science, our science, as crude as it may be today has no room for gods.

I defy the earth

to crush me

for I am ironclad,

and I am afire

with anger.

 

My skin,

a chainmail coat,

so that I am impervious

to Satan's mischief,

invincible in this

the final battle.

 

And god too

can go to hell!

 

All the deceptions

man has placed

upon me

in praising false

religious ideology,

in browbeating

humanity

with bible words

fuels my rebellion.

 

For here I stand,

stout, strong

and steady

as the shadow

of death approaches.

 

I am made

of science,

a child made of

fermions.

 

I am dark energy

flowing

through the cosmos.

 

But I do not own

these quarks,

leptons and bosons,

they are me,

they form me.

 

The final frontier

will see them

split asunder,

to scatter that me

across the universe.

From there

I will arise again,

I will be part

of life once more.

 

07/11/20

Author's Note

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and I agree with Richard on how deft you are at
composing free verse...and retaining a certain rhythm that needs no rhyme.
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

You both humble me Jacob. I read you both and feel pretty much a pretender, though I have tried to learn from you and a handful of amazing poets like Leslie Philibert etc. I wish I could conceptualise metaphors as deftly as you and that you seem to simply magic out of thin air.

[Richard🖌]

Great minds think alike, John 'n Jacob 🤔
Especially, amongst poetic brothers.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we are energy, shadows, beliefs, non-beliefs...
but science proves we exist, anything else is based on the hope there is still something
after this...and your ending reminds me of how often my friends and I have discussed
the possibility of reincarnation...and what we would like to come back as.
my response to that is "smarter"---

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Now now Jacob! How on earth could a fella such as yourself be any more smart! Me taller and smarter lol. I love considering the future and science and try to remember how far we humans think we have progressed when in reality we are only a step away from flint tools. For me that opens up so many mind blowing things we cannot even conceptualise. Many thanks Jacob.

[Richard🖌]

You're always part of life, John 🧐

You ARE life, there's no division, no separation of all the invented scientific parts you've mentioned in the basic foundation of primal life, anymore than there's reality in a God humanity invented and had invent them (all of us) and all that is and isn't … all that sort of hyperbole subsists only in the limited dimensional world of human existence and what man has created for his own use in search for TRUTH.
On TRUTH we can only play.

Still, within the realm of human consciousness levels, where poetry exists, you've posed some rather lofty postulations few may ever otherwise ponder, and in the manner you've done so, one is left rather breathless from the mastery of your skills.
Neat title, artwork, and music choice, too.

In Free Verse, to my discernment, you stand second to none, and I am proud to be privileged in reading You, and having you available and willing to read me … maybe, until now … LOL! ⁓ Richard 🍃

[John Alexander McFadyen]

We are then Richard, in complete agreement on that first paragraph! As to the second, I think we often deny the lofty in favour of following the easy path and abdicating our responsibility to some higher deity. I am so happy you like some of my offerings as you are among a few real poets on WC who has full command of language and form. Thank you so much for the kindness you offer to me and so many others on the site.

[Richard🖌]

Great minds think alike, John 'n Jacob 🤔
Especially, amongst poetic brothers.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

We could get into real hot water for not mentioning the sisters too! especially with Kamala Harris as president in waiting.

[Richard🖌]

Ahhh, our incomparably enthralling Ladies … nothing worthwhile in our lives would exist without them! 🥂"KLINK!"