Cede

Today's word is "cede" ... To yield or formally surrender to another.

Choice
I heard an argument today,
Pitting materialism against God,
To determine if our origin's designed,
Or sprung from primordial soup and sod.

The boy said everything was chance,
Nature, nurtured molecules,
Anyone who'd disagree with him,
Would surely be a fool.

So the teacher asked a question,
About the sureness of his fate,
Whether he could change his mind,
Or to a higher truth relate.

If it was possible to rise above
His tissued brain, and cede this point,
Then the determined state of things
Would sure be out of joint.

For when it comes to claiming truth,
Determinism must give way,
If you are your own all-in-all ...
That's all you'll have to say.

More mysterious things are stirring,
Than mere cells can comprehend,
As our beginning purposefully points,
To our story's lifeline and its end.

Anne Selleck
Copyright 2013