Born Again?

For millennia Believers with narrow minds
have taken the phrase 'You must be born again'
as a license to lecture all that they should be like them.
Through this injunction they have renewed
the accepted sense of straight and narrow.
By getting others to censor their lives
beyond their own understanding.

Meanwhile in liberal secular first world societies 
the masses experience a similar sense of elation,
a grace as cheap, that renews less and is more pervasive.

This time the kick comes through surviving illnesses
that in previous generations meant the end of life
which modern science has beaten, hands down.
The scientists who find their cures might be 'heroes'.
Patients who live longer are merely 'following orders'.

True gratitude for life will renew.
The deeper it goes the more it renews,
ultimately to the level of saying nothing about it.