What if the scoffers are right
and the believers faith
is in nothing,
for nothing?

Well, then…

So what?

Believers will have spent their lives,
day by days
as all have spent theirs,
but, maybe,
with a little less worry,
a little more hope,
and they will fall asleep
in the gentle joy of belief,
nestled in their coffins,
the only “house of the lord”
any of us will ever get,
forever.

But.

If believers are right,
and they wake to that glad shout,
their faith, justified,
and justified by that faith,
their lives sanctified by faith
in the love and work of their life times,
saved for an eternity of Loving…

Well,

then,

sorry folks,

but you’ll be in for
a regretful time
in your old town
that
dark
night.