The Science of Cake

Story by Jacob King on SoFurry

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_**Science is a great enemy

That I have to fight every day.

Though with age I become wiser,

Science grows stronger anyway.**_

_**Mysteries get demystified,

Chaos is then categorized.

Anything that was once by chance

Awesome is now simply downsized**_

_**Into the rational and logical---

Two things that one can't live without---

Yet when the mystery is gone,

There'd be nothing to think about!**_

_**Wonder, awe---bliss in confusion---

I'd rather just admire stuff

Than spending my entire life

Studying everything! Enough!**_

_**The day that I suffered the most

Was when I argued with science.

Standing up for God, love, and dreams

Was my mission, yet I grew tense.**_

_**"How can you be so straightforward?"

I said, "You live within a box!

If God needs to be proven then

So do dreams and love!" He talks**_

_**Of the need for provable facts,

"We must have solid evidence!

How can you deny such logic?

How can you deny my science?**_

_**I believe love is---simply put---

Just a chemical reaction.

Dreams come from rapid-eye-movement

Within the brain. It's not fiction!**_

_**And God, well, where the hell is He?

Can't you see that He is not here?

Nothing solid---no facts nor truth-

You have on Him! Goodbye, my dear!"**_

_**Ever since then have I felt lost,

Nothing I pondered on felt sweet.

Is that all love had really been?

Have my dreams just met their defeat?**_

_**Has my God given up on me?

Praying to Him gets no answers.

This didn't feel right---nothing did!

Does this mean I was never her's?**_

_**"Just a chemical reaction."

Said that smart, science-crazed lab rat

That's all love really is? Were my

Feelings for that vixen just that?**_

_**What once ruled my primal nature

Was a chemical reaction,

And nothing more! That's all love is?!

That is the case! It's not fiction!**_

_**How can something that feels so strong

Come from something that's so little?

Something that small couldn't be great.

Love is not real! It's no riddle!**_

_**Makes me sad, realizing it's

Just a chemical reaction.

So then everybody was wrong!

Love is not real---it is fiction!**_

_**All this talk about how love's real

Came from the uninformed masses.

No longer will believe them

Since my knowledge now surpasses.**_

_**No longer will memories of

Her warm fur tame my heavy heart.

What once was had never been---no

Longer will it tear me apart.**_

_**Though I miss those old feelings of

Believing I was in love, I

Know better now; they were all wrong.

The cake they serve me is a lie!**_

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This was inspired by a conversation I had with an atheist a few weeks ago that left me feeling pretty down.

(PS: Sally, if you're reading this, you have nothing to do with this poem! I love you babe! <3333 XD)