trust, have faith, believe

by Paul Cech / March 19th, 2017

a little girl
in pennsylvania
had pneumonia

antibiotics
medicine
science
could have saved her

but

her parents
her grandparents
her loving family
believed every word of what they learned
in sunday school

trust in god
have faith
believe

sadly

she died
so others could hold on to
a myth
a story
a socially sanctioned delusion

antibiotics
medicine
science

trust
have faith
believe…

Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople. Read other articles by Paul.

This article was posted on Sunday, March 19th, 2017 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.