car ride

Driving my high school son
and his friends home,
metal, heavy on the volume,
I listened.
"Why believe? Don't you know
God abandoned
us long ago…"
I couldn't understand
the rest,
but the boys?
They talked of how
much they love
the song and a band
who tells it like it is
to the world.
It made me remember
my rebellious days,
my days of disbelief.
when we knew it all,
had faith only in ourselves.
nobody could tell us
differently,
so I don't try to tell him.
I was once much like them-
the boys
in my car.