POEME: Religions and Ideologies

Religions and Ideologies

We are seeing
the rise of another conqueror,
another robber baron.

And this can be said truthfully,
at many points in place and time.
Not just now,
not just here,
not just what I suffer now and here,
from the hands of mine and the other.

We are seeing the rise of another conqueror,
another robber baron.
We can be sure that soon
it will be a religion of the devout,
a cherished ideology of many,
today and centuries from now.

Today and centuries from now, children will be bullied
to follow this asshole's hollow diktats,
taking away their innocence
and turning them into monsters who will,
in turn kill others,
directly and indirectly,
men and animals,
beings and habitats,
and rape their own women and bully their own children
in the name of their holy religion
or holy ideology
or holy asshole.

Even their children
who will profess their hate for
and disbelief in that religion
will harass those that love them,
by throwing the corrosive dregs of that holy way,
for they will know no other way,
and in their hubris, not look for one.

No one will bother
to ever practice
real love and compassion and truth.
Or take the trouble to get to the real reality.
Until comprehensively burnt
by the monsters' minstrels.

We are seeing the rise of another conqueror, another robber baron.

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