Thursday 7 October 2021

An agnostic hymn

 The man who wasn’t sure


Let’s celebrate the man who wasn’t sure. 

Unprepared to hate another tribe

Unwilling despite the constant calls

To join the team of atheists or believers.  


For he cherished freedom

To suspend all judgement 

And his courage to take no side. 


Unloved perhaps but sure

He wasn’t sure and so no State 

Or Church could pressure him

To nail some colors to a mast

That stood atop the ship

That sailed the waters

Of this precious life. 


Unwilling and unable

To swap one creed for another. 

Happy to lay aside the images

And imperium of a God

Unlikely to exist, impossible to justify. 

Unwilling though to deny the kindness

That he found in the faithful

Inconvenient as it seemed. 


And so he traveled seemingly alone

But in truth one of millions

Who nursed their secret doubts

On both sides of a road 

That should have brought us all

Together. 

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