the babbler (trying their hardest to convince themselves of what they claim to believe in public)

saying to one who does not feel
that there is anything beyond this
momentary pubic hair of existence
that “there has to be something more” &
that “there has to be something
mysterious” & “that there has to be
something greater” & then directly
following that truckload of fallacious
statements by informing your
conversational pal that “it” speaks to
you personally on a daily basis, that
its plans have been all laid out in a work
of fiction written a couple thousand
years ago & that it has created a
permanent place for you forever
where you need never question
anything or fear being harmed.