Right Reasons To Disbelieve

You believe in goodness being
contingent in every living thing,
an integral component of
construction, an inalienable
distinction as true today as when
the designer designed them.

You believe in it because you must.
So when rampant pragmatism
overrides your sense of trust,
when the unsustainable
precepts of propriety are dust
and ashes will you think again?

The last man to the bank when
the run on commonsense begins
inherits more goodness than the rest,
his currency concedes the test
of fair exchange but he has the
right reasons to disbelieve.
© I.D. Carswell 2006