To Live the Good Life
by Michael Doyle

Looking out on the Milky Way's tapestry
Makes me wonder about life's mystery.
Who are we and how did we get here?
And what is it about life we should revere?

An unknown God out of nowhere created the universe,
We know this by way of many a repeated Bible verse.
That is what we say among the other ways,
So much was created in the best of only seven days.

Among God's many pauses at creation
Were the land and the sea, and so much of the imagination.
But the crowning achievement was humanity,
So the Bible tells us, or was that just our vanity?

Almost inevitably, we hiccupped into something sad,
When Adam and Eve disappointed their heavenly dad.
Given life in the Garden, they just had to loot,
Everything they wanted, even the forbidden fruit.

The secrets of morality were wrapped in something beautiful.
Beautiful and edible, in a temptation somehow too wonderful,
To pass up and since that bite mankind fell for sin,
As we would over and over again, tempting moments over again. 

Moses acted the part of a social influencer by his zealous heart,
Coming down heavy with tablets of commanded laws for our start.
As a forewarning, mankind's lot was not to be one of hedonism,
And from this, we learned that we aren't to fall into any -ism.

So it was that it was set out for all of us human fools.
All we had to do was be faithful and follow a few hundred rules.
If we played this tight, everything was meant to set us right.
The end of life would become a tunnel ending in His holy light...

               .. Wait,... that's not it, right?             
   
(c) January 19, 20206   Michael Doyle
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