Atheistic Blossoms

Atheistic flowers are blossoming

watered by the Bastille ink of Voltaire
by the tears of Galileo and Spinoza
by the blood of Marlowe and myriad other martyrs:

atheistic flowers are blossoming

their garden is growing
filling the civilized fields of Europe
and the harsh terrain of China
finding fertile ground in exotic Buddhist lands,
appearing in brilliant color
(though surrounded by superstitions
and reactionary weeds)
from Africa to Cuba to America

the bees of liberalism, learning and science
are spreading their pollen of noble truth
to receptive pistils in the minds of youth

yes, the workers are too few
but the garden of simple truth is growing,
atheistic flowers are blossoming
in all the colors of humanity