Jeff McCallum

There is a world out there

an entire universe

many of us do not understand

Ice caps on Mars that disappeared

without automobiles

so some claim

as some revise predictions to

five feet of ocean rise on this planet

DNA

Big Bangs

Black Holes

cancer

a thousand things and more

and god

my god

your god

gives all this some perspective

gives us reason to continue

even if the rewards are in a different life

There’s a world out there

an entire universe

many of us do not understand

Jihad

Crusades

The holocaust

a thousand things and more

and god

our god

gives it no perspective

gives us no reason to continue

and come to think of it

perhaps that different life

is better after all

pass the virgins please