Ennui

The ennui of this existence
has this nagging persistence
that eats any resistance
within the selves of shells.

The human mistake is
God's greatest complaint
to his brothers and sisters
in the Pantheon,
and they laugh
and they laugh
and they chide him
and they deride him
for the missing the answer
on fill-in-the blank.

But, no matter which
God is ultimately true,
we were s**t out on
this rock of blue,
out of the blue,
whooptee f*****g do!

No purpose, no point,
no f*****g reason!

Atheism and
nihilism are
in fashion
this season.

And the God
of whatever
will try me
for treason.

Once a follower,
now a failure.

Once a hero,
now a heretic.

Just because I
finally recognized
God's Long Con,
the lame game to
explain and blame
why humankind
deserves an
eternal flame.

But what I
think doesn't
matter to the
majority
because of
their absolute
belief in
eternal glory.

They plead for me,
they bleed for me,
trying to keep me
from a burning hell
but I just yell
and ring the bell
just to tell them
the decision has
been made on
a debt I
haven't made,
and it will
never be paid.

This is done,
there is none,
and it was fun.

Not really,
it was silly
being beat
with a club
called Billy.

But now the
poem is completed,
the ultimate belief
has been defeated.

Reviews

[Audrey Howitt]

I love your poetic voice when you get rolling. And you just rollicked through this one. Great job Kenneth!

[John Jackson (El Juero)]

But tell me, how do you really feel?

[OT]

ha! love your voice in poems - it has a slightly wry shade - " whooptee f*****g do!" - haha - the rhymes here are used to great effect - the rolling feel to them is almost rap like at times - the intensity - coupled with the quick rhyme - nice job!

[GoldenOne]

Wow, I really enjoyed this poem. The flow was excellent, and the diction pretty much perfect. I especially liked the alliteration in the first stanza, it really caught me.

Thanks for posting!

[Tkess]

I could write a book about my religious beliefs. I am an atheist. I do not belief in a god and I think all religions are in one way or another detrimental to society. I should re-phrase that fundamentalism in any religion be it Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc. is very harmful to everyone. That's not to say that I am against anyone believing what they want to believe or doing anything they want to as long as it doesn't impede or impose on the beliefs of anyone else. However, it's the people that expect everyone to think like them or do like they do because their invisible man conveniently gives them that audacity in a book that they are so willing to quote from yet rarely read. If you want to worship some sky king fine, but don't tell me I am an immoral person because I don't believe what you do. Everyone on earth is an atheist, some people just take it one god further.

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion." Steven Weinberg

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

amazing how people will ride you and chide you when you don't believe as they do. .......excellent piece Kenneth.