KEITH BURKHOLDER - POEMS

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

​Creationism is a lost cause

​Look at the facts here,
Creationism is a lost cause,
$1.5 trillion dollars going into the military,
In the United States of America,
No national health care system,
Yet, God and Jesus are not around to help,
I am not bashing the military,
It is of great use,
But the money going toward it,
Something is wrong here,
Where is God when you need him?
Or the second stringer in Jesus,
Creationism is slowly phasing out,
And it should,
It has done nothing for anyone,
It never will,
The military will always be needed,
In regards to human behavior,
And natural disasters,
Now there is COVID-19,
Who knows when that will end?
Think about what I have said here,
Religion of any kind is fiction,
Take care for now,
Be good,
Be well,
And again, carpe diem.

There is no such thing as a truly nice person

​Again, look at the costs of the military and law enforcement,
Look at who rules a country,
Look at how expensive the world is,
Look at how phony religious people really are,
Look at segregation,
Bullying,
Classism,
Racism,
The gamet,
Yet, you always hear, isn't he the nicest person?
Or she the nicest one,
That is not true,
The viewpoint of nice is warped in our society,
There are people who think nice is someone who is mean,
I am not judgmental here,
But, not all body tattoo wearing people are the nicest around,
Again, not judgmental, but most are not nice,
They love to rebel,
Again, believe what you want to,
It is a free world,
Take care for now,
And may tomorrow be better for you as it greets us with its presence.