Blind Faith

To refer to faith as blind is to be redundant

All faith is blind

What is not blind is hope

Hope relies on occasional evidence

Reality is neutral on the subject of faith

Hope is grounded in reality

Sign says: bleak days ahead

See what the religious have done?

They trot out their faith

And if not faith

They speak of spirits

Of the spiritual

Of ghosts

Apparently real ghosts

Real to them, anyway

See what the young do?

They deny the pace of passing time

To them, life is long enough

Sometimes too long

Ample to waste

To avoid

To put off

To float along

And what of the scientist?

Her hope is in logic and its methods

Predicting, postdicting, edicting

From the gospel according

To the book of Bacon

Oxymorons such as life science

Sometimes yield plain morons

Such as we have not seen before

I want no part of faith

I will take a little science

But mainly, I look for evidence

Sufficient to justify my way of living

My will to hope

For my concern is not only

To make it through the bleak

I must be alert for days

When the sun is warm on my skin

And the path clear to see