Jihad & Crusade:
A rough, found poem, sort of…
Holy war holy war
War most unholy
So much superstition
Too much bloodshed
You gotta go
You gotta go
You gotta go away from me
So get away from me
Self-Righteous Followers
Of
Moses and Jesus,
Buddha and Mohammed,
Even you Confucius
And Zoroaster, too,
And all you Pagan Deities
Glorifying human sacrifice
And to tell the Truth
It’s really all you Believers and Gospel interpreters
Who blame all the rest of us for your own blasphemies,
Not our avatars and sages.
The rest of y’all back away from us.
Y’all gotta go
Gotta go
Go go go
And leave my kids alone,
Leave my kids alone!
So begone
Begone
Not to the stars beyond
But back to the past.
Forever.
The Fundamentalists of every religion are the most Satanic.
So drenched in their own Hate they’re convinced
The Devils they see among all the rest of us are Real.
They fail to see their projections as their own reflections.
Peace and Blessings upon all Holy and Sacred.
No more war
No more violence
No more dogma
Peace, Mercy, Love, Forgiveness, Compassion, Firmness, Kindness, Liberty, Discipline, Purpose, Integration, Unity, Co-Creation, Cooperation, Power,
And more Love
Is what we need now.
William Dudley Bass
2007, 2008, 2012
Seattle, Washington
NOTE: This was first published in my earlier blog Cultivate and Harvest, on Wednesday 18 November 2008 at http://cultivateandharvest.blogspot.com/2008/11/jihad-crusade.html, then reprinted here this 4 March 2012, with my permission as the author. Thank you.
Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2012, 2016 by William Dudley Bass. All Rights Reserved until we Humans establish Wise Stewardship of and for our Earth and Solarian Commons. Thank you.
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