You seem to take a strange pride

 in believing that it’s true

your land of invisible people

who only talk to you

 

 you act like it’s okay to deride

such other points of view

as you’d dismiss as “materialistic”

and conjure up strawmen

 

like: we deny the awe of existence;

know enough to survive

you argue we are cynical

I’m cynical – it’s true.

 

Frankly, few people I’ve ever met

are more that way than you!

Let’s examine the first point first shall we –

... awe of human existence...

 

 You, who know I put no limits on

all that the cosmos sings

and state that abstract concepts, whilst

not matter, are “things”,

 

know I’ve figured in such detail

 what we seem to be

but retain my fascination

and philosophise on

 

and investigate with relish

each further mystery

in what would seem to be “the world”

and then, time allowing,

 

might join you in investigating in

your “land of the fairies”.

Next: only know enough to feed

the needs of... survival.

 

These are the words of someone

not au fait with the verb: know

and believes he has a soul somewhere

that others are without

 

I know with certainty two things.  Then: 

things of which I’m confident,

the rest I’m sure about; after that

I’m open-minded –ish

 

You see for all this pompous piety,

everyone’s deluded except you

(in your land of invisible people

who only talk to you)

 

We at least tell you what we believe,

and for why,

instead of insisting it’s true.