Is climate change real?
Is the world round?
Did holocaust really happen?
Did we evolve over millions of years?
How do you make sense of this?
Who came up with these numbers?
Have you seen this with your eyes?
How can you explain this opposing evidence?
Each year we ask these questions
The answers to them known
Yet as we march into this new future
Where even answers are now unknown
The flame of reason
Has stuttered at times
Almost died at other moments
But it has held strong
To guide our way
But as we head into 2017
Reason has run out of its fuel
For light is never an ally
Of people who seek power
And hence the war wages
To bury this flame
For if reason lived on
In our hearts and minds
We would love
And show compassion
But that would bring unity
Something despised
By a small part of humanity
The voice of reason
Is now but a faint echo
The flame of reason
Lays smoldering
The word of reason
Now an obscure language
I haven’t any hope
And yet still I hope
For reason to become
The reason
Of being reasonable