Foxfire - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

I became an atheist the junior year of my spring semester in college

My friend from back home moved into our already crowded two bedroom apartment

That now housed four

And five when Cathy would move in later that year

He was unyielding and used logic

Like a hammer or a martyr

And would hurl question after question across the four foot gap

Between his mattress and mine

It absolved me of any last remaining doubt

There was a certainty that finally settled in

That had been torn open during my freshman year over a course in cultural anthropology

I am comfortable knowing that this is it

There is so much more beauty in a life that also has death