Jihad & Crusade

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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