Live and Love
You chose to question why humanity even exists
You needed a reason to be alive
You sought proof for why it’s even important to love
And care for each other
No surprise to me that you invented gods
Maybe there are other beings
Not exactly human like us, not non-human, either
Or maybe utterly beyond our human comprehension
Somewhere besides Earth mostly, or living here
Or they’ve never really been here at all
At least, in the same ways we all experience this place
It doesn’t matter though:
THAT is what you have chosen to ignore --
All this time
It doesn’t matter what has come before
It doesn’t matter what will happen next
Because if you keep on choosing to ignore
The facts that
You don’t need a reason to exist
You don’t need a reason to live
You don’t need a reason to love
And care for each other --
If that’s your choice
Then you’ll keep needing gods
And that is fine
Whoever or whatever your gods are
May they fit into what you need for your
Reasons, and
Justifications, and
Rationalizations
For living and loving
Because it doesn’t matter to us
If they exist or not
If you can ever know them or not
If they have any control over you or not
I truly just hope
Your own knowing that
Your gods are real
Gives you comfort
And helps you sleep at night
Meanwhile
We’ll be keeping watch
On you
And your gods
Because our only
Reason, and
Justification, and
Rationalization
For living and loving
Is to try to keep it going
As long as we can
As long as we want to
So rest assured
We have an eye out
Just in case
You and your gods
Choose
To try to force us
To stop
Before we’re ready