Acolytes

we are all acolytes

even the heretics

none are exempt

belief is pandemic

whole lives spent

in unconscious worship

the human way made 

easy systems for comfort

quick resource access

or pointless denial

two million years

of four and a half

billion with

five billion left

give

or take

in this scope life 

is unbearably short

so take this span

and run run run

bursting with joy

bursting with sorrow

relishing witnessing

feeling believing

loving or hating

to the end

only you will know

and carry that flame

into darkness