In Answer to Fundamentalism

by

Justice Putnam

It’s not right

To elevate Her

To the status of

Goddess

Rational man

Would refute it.

A material world

Critical of

Class and place

Would find

That elevation

To be demeaning.

My Heart

Doesn’t beat

In a material world

Though

I be nothing

More than

Flesh and

Bone.

In a sky

Of light

A universe

Of gravity

A galaxy

Among the void

And plasma

And yet some

Would question

Whether another

Would doubt

The Power of

God’s hand?

© 2006 by Justice Putnam

and Mechanisches-Strophe Verlagswesen