David Hume Poem by Francis Duggan

Behind his truth he was not one to hide
As an atheist he lived and as an atheist he died
The eighteenth century Scottish philosopher David Hume
In his mind the existence of a god he never did assume
To his end to his beliefs he remained true
For challenging the thinking of the majority great credit he is due
On miracles as such he never did believe
His thinking on that is the imagination is known to deceive
To most human beings he looked at human life in quite a different way
Yet as a philosopher his thought on paper and online read today
As one of the pioneers of the minority atheist thinking kind
He was a man who had a brilliant mind
In philosophy his became a World known name
And his writings live to his enduring fame.