Defiling The Unknown

There’s no bigger threat

than what’s still left to know

Its backbone religion,

as it sits on its throne

What cannot be stated

and proven as fact

Evangelists kidnap

and wear on their backs

With prophecy wrapped

in their folly misled

What’s still undiscovered,

leaves dogma undead 

But then when the darkness

moves into light

Revivalists shout,

claiming: “See, we were right”

Leaving two kinds of liars

in this world to be shown

Those twisting the truth

—and those defiling the unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)