Salvation

We do not need to wait for signs these days,
we’ve seen the stars are distant, further still
than distance we can know and reach out for.
They are no longer watchers over us
and all our insignificant small lives.

How this became a day, and not the end
of everything is no great mystery
requiring sacrifice. Beginning day
does not need freshly running blood to stain
the dawn a deeper red, a life for life.

We should have turned away, just walked away
so long ago. All children have to leave
behind the comforting reassurance
of myth and fable, learning that the truth
has not got any special places, lands,
no get-out clauses and no chosen ones.

There are no questions answered only by
petition, nothing out there watching all
to prostrate for, to counter some deep sense
of insignificance and central place
in this our solitary universe.

Do not believe salvation saves the soul
except through reason, wisdom and the mind.
A coming towards understanding all
and knowing understanding can’t know all.
Do not expect the touch of miracles,
and then you will know surprise, wonder and
the true real beauty taking us beyond.

Don’t waste your life on praying hopelessly
for salvation beyond this life and world,
beyond the possible, beyond the real.
Do not let go of life and waste your time
on chasing after ghosts through empty skies.