The Missed Chance

CARRY ON TUESDAY

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The words in blue are the first words of 'The War of the Worlds' by H.G.Wells:

'No one would have believed........'

THE MISSED CHANCE

What would the world be like, I wonder,

If 'Belief' had just never been.

If no one had ever dreamed-up 'the gods',

Imagining the unseen.

If early man had accepted that life

Was what he could touch and see;

That the sky was empty, except for stars,

And a tree was just a tree?

Why did he need to imagine

A 'Being' in control,

Why did he complicate this life

With 'Eternity' and 'Soul'?

The world we have is a marvel,

Its beauty such perfection;

Surely there was no need to yearn

In quite another direction!

But what would the world be like, I wonder,

Had 'Heaven' never 'appeared',

If humans had never created

A Being to be feared?

Would we be so very different?

Would wars still rage unrestrained?

Would the glorious green of our planet

Still be ravaged and blood-stained?

Or would mankind have prospered

Accepting the here and now,

Not stopping every so often

To genuflect or bow?

An age of simple acceptance

Can never now be retrieved.

But I yearn for a world untrammelled,

Before mankind 'believed'.

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USUAL
(An Acrostic)

Usual things are friendly
So they don't seem a threat.
Unusual things give us a shock
And make us jump and sweat.
Loud bangs in the middle of the night
Cause us to wake-up in a fright!
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