Tuesday, April 27, 2021

figures don't lie, but . . .


 humans and figures


figures don’t lie,

but the language of their truths

can be hard to figure out,


some of the same people who think

God finds us more special

than trillions of other planets in the universe

can also deny that human actions

can influence and cause climate change,

can we be central to God

and peripheral to the planet?


can the universe view us as central

and the gases from our bodies, our cows, our industry,

not be of any consequence we nee to consider?


are we so important to God

that he will spoil us, indulge us,

never hold us accountable for what we do with our lives?


as George Orwell warned in his cautionary 1984, 

2 + 2 = 4,

reality depends upon us knowing that truth.



by Henry H. Walker
April 20, ‘21

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