When the way is not followed
railroads haul weapons and fuel
food and energy are stockpiled
the earth is bled away and sold.

No motive is more compelling
than wanting what others have
no illness more debilitating
than dissatisfaction with what one has
no better forecast of failure
than wanting more.

Knowing
the satisfaction
of being content
with the simple life
a wise person will always be satisfied.

No gods to worship.
No commandments to obey.
No social trust to uphold.

When a person becomes atheist
living becomes more difficult.
No higher power to say what is humanly right or divinely wrong.
No authority that can be followed.
No thing or person that can be ultimately valued.

Atheism has nothing to offer the follower.