Life Outside of Truth or God

Math and faith have this in common—
There’s no questioning their conclusions
From outside their assumptions.

Meanwhile, the secular humanist,
Surviving outside of both traditions,
Or, at best, on their outskirts,

Marginal and feral as a fox
Patrolling the cosseted suburbs,
An Aesop’s Fable sort of creature,

Forced to settle for allegories,
Tropes, purely verbal morals, and prone
To trickster habits, gossips wickedly

About honest king leonine math, while
Self-soothing about faith’s sour grapes.