KEITH BURKHOLDER - POEMS

Keith Burkholder has been published in Creative Juices, Sol Magazine, Trellis Magazine, Foliate Oak Literary Journal, New Delta Review, Poetry Quarterly and Scarlet Leaf Review. He has a bachelor's degree in statistics with a minor in mathematics from SUNY at Buffalo (UB). 

​One doesn't have to be bad to be an atheist

Think about all of the problems in religion,
People believing in God,
Yet, most of them are hypocrites,
People believe in something they can't see,
Yet, this thought process is passed onto families,
What has God done for you?
What has he done for me?
Very simply, nothing,
Evolution and the Big Bang Theory are tangible,
They are evidence on how we came to what we are,
To be molded out of clay into human life,
It seems out of whack or just plain and simply,
Story telling at its finest,
Religion is fantastic fiction,
It is blown up a million times over in that category,
Again, believe in what you want,
Atheism is a belief system,
We have choices in this world,
Choices that are plentiful,
Respect yourself and try to be good,
This is all you can do,
Take care and let tomorrow be great when this day should come,
Again, carpe diem.
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​The Headless Alien Finds a New Life In a Human Cemetery

This headless alien has landed,
Landed in a cemetery,
On planet Earth,
He needs a head,
He will venture into the ground,
To find a head to see and maneuver properly as an alien,
He is happy to be on planet Earth,
He ventures into the cemetery,
He is able to find his way around,
A lot of guesswork is used,
He will go underground now,
He knows he will find a head,
This task occurs now,
Over time he finds a new head,
He can actually see before him,
This new head feels great to him,
It is from a corpse that was just buried,
He has a new outlook on life,
He will go back home,
To his home planet,
He feels like a new alien,
Earth has been great to him,
So has this cemetery,
It is still night,
Away he goes now,
This was a great venture for him,
Happiness surrounds his well-being,
I wish him well,
For his journey in life has been great and his new way of life will improve with each given day ahead of him as time passes him by.
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