{"sf1_id":175628,"sf2_id":"pnGJ3JVm","title":"The Science of Cake","author":"Jacob King","words":465,"posted_at":"2010-09-05T21:36:00.000Z","tags":["Depression","Lost","Love","M/F","Memories","No-Yiff","Poem","Poetry","Science","ambivalence","confusion","furry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/175628-the-science-of-cake","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/pnGJ3JVm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/f3/05/f3057d68-1cdf-4bbe-b1ff-30003e22cf06","description":"","content":"_**Science is a great enemy  \nThat I have to fight every day.  \nThough with age I become wiser,  \nScience grows stronger anyway.**_\n\n_**Mysteries get demystified,  \nChaos is then categorized.  \nAnything that was once by chance  \nAwesome is now simply downsized**_\n\n_**Into the rational and logical---  \nTwo things that one can't live without---  \nYet when the mystery is gone,  \nThere'd be nothing to think about!**_\n\n_**Wonder, awe---bliss in confusion---  \nI'd rather just admire stuff  \nThan spending my entire life  \nStudying everything! Enough!**_\n\n_**The day that I suffered the most  \nWas when I argued with science.  \nStanding up for God, love, and dreams  \nWas my mission, yet I grew tense.**_\n\n_**\"How can you be so straightforward?\"  \nI said, \"You live within a box!  \nIf God needs to be proven then  \nSo do dreams and love!\" He talks**_\n\n_**Of the need for provable facts,  \n\"We must have solid evidence!  \nHow can you deny such logic?  \nHow can you deny my science?**_\n\n_**I believe love is---simply put---  \nJust a chemical reaction.  \nDreams come from rapid-eye-movement  \nWithin the brain. It's not fiction!**_\n\n_**And God, well, where the hell is He?  \nCan't you see that He is not here?  \nNothing solid---no facts nor truth-  \nYou have on Him! Goodbye, my dear!\"**_\n\n_**Ever since then have I felt lost,  \nNothing I pondered on felt sweet.  \nIs that all love had really been?  \nHave my dreams just met their defeat?**_\n\n_**Has my God given up on me?  \nPraying to Him gets no answers.  \nThis didn't feel right---nothing did!  \nDoes this mean I was never her's?**_\n\n_**\"Just a chemical reaction.\"  \nSaid that smart, science-crazed lab rat  \nThat's all love really is? Were my  \nFeelings for that vixen just that?**_\n\n_**What once ruled my primal nature  \nWas a chemical reaction,  \nAnd nothing more! That's all love is?!  \nThat is the case! It's not fiction!**_\n\n_**How can something that feels so strong  \nCome from something that's so little?  \nSomething that small couldn't be great.  \nLove is not real! It's no riddle!**_\n\n_**Makes me sad, realizing it's  \nJust a chemical reaction.  \nSo then everybody was wrong!  \nLove is not real---it is fiction!**_\n\n_**All this talk about how love's real  \nCame from the uninformed masses.  \nNo longer will believe them  \nSince my knowledge now surpasses.**_\n\n_**No longer will memories of  \nHer warm fur tame my heavy heart.  \nWhat once was had never been---no  \nLonger will it tear me apart.**_\n\n_**Though I miss those old feelings of  \nBelieving I was in love, I  \nKnow better now; they were all wrong.  \nThe cake they serve me is a lie!**_\n\n_\u0026nbsp;_\n\n_\u0026nbsp;_\n\nThis was inspired by a conversation I had with an atheist a few weeks ago that left me\u0026nbsp;feeling pretty\u0026nbsp;down.\n\n(PS: Sally, if you're reading this, you have nothing to do with this poem! I love you babe! \\\u003c3333 XD)\n\n  \n  \n\n"}