A Warning, Please be aware this may appear to some friends a somewhat controversial write. I intend no offense or disrespect. I hope none is taken and ask for your forgiveness and understanding beforehand. In the name of humanity over religion.
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Will You Tell Me Why?
Humans are at the apex creation's gem.
Tell me that again.
How and why are we so much higher than the lowly animal?
We campaign for human rights
Animal rights womens rights,
Animals don't,
They play a game
Called
Survival of the fittest.
We are envious
suspicious of our
Best qualities.
We scorn our soft hearts and
cultivate hard heads
We identify our common worst instincts
Herd together at cynical watering holes of self interest
And call that brotherhood...
Our faculty for empathy
Morphs into self styled
Constructive criticism
All it constructs
Is destructive
Anguish...
Tell me which other species
Needs to wear tags?
Uniforms and badges
Of their respective space
In life
Like animals defecating to mark their reigning place
And tell me then my friends
of what use is
Omnipotence
Without
Universal grace
If Religion is like
Family
It deserves
Your loving loyalty
But marrying within
Your family and blood
is incest
And in both
exclusion of the other
And subtle persuasion
To group think
Is spiritual malaise.
A Jesu rose to shatter the temples of commerce
Defy pools of influence
Pharisees and scribes
Of the time
Buddha walked out of his
Royal destiny
With dead certitude
In the still hours of the night.
What nightmare is this where
We
Adulate and embrace
Valiant Changemakers
And then nonchalantly build fortresses
Of tyranny
Chain our brothers and sisters
In fetters
Who's to decide
If your faith
Or mine
Is better.
I had rather be a lowly animal
Free
Than be born
Into one size fits all
Ready to wear
Identity.
A human is born
In chains unseen
Handed into social captivity
By parents.
Dog tags of Upanayan
Baptism
Bar Mitzvahs
And
Circumcision.
Give your children freedom
To decide
At eighteen.
Maybe another
Christos will arise
Like Phoenix
Out of the the ashes of
Philistines.
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(c) Amrita Valan 2014
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