We enter the world
with a slap and a cry,
then spend our lives puzzling
over how, and why.
As we grow, we’re conditioned
by fables and folk stories,
of elves, ogres and unicorns,
various gods, and their glories.
We mature as Pavlovian reactives,
who are told how and what to think.
As our minds reject truth and reason,
intellectual capacity will shrink.
Of course it is childishly simple
to accept any drivel we’re fed,
and to suffer through life believing
you’ll be better off when you’re dead!
Try to envisage a future
where reason and truth would prevail;
where we’d work towards peace and inclusion,
shunning dogmatic fairy tales.
Just imagine the world we could build,
dialectical schisms all gone:
a moral and social heaven that glows
in the light of a brave new dawn.