RELIGION

Religion is a human 'wrong'
With which we try to fill the void.
Humanity will not survive
Unless religions we avoid.

While hanging on to our beliefs
To others we cannot "...reach out...",
Depriving us of nourishment
For life, we cannot do without.

Religions aren't the source of 'rights',
The traits that we consider good,
And motivation making us
"Do unto others..." as we should.

Good traits and motivation are
What let humanity survive
Until the point in history
Religions started to arrive.

Since then religions have decreased
The 'rights' that made humanity.
Discarding all of them will help
Restart the way we used to be,

United individuals
In common cause we all applaud,
Becoming what we each can be,
In part the face of Nature's God.

NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL
Religious leaders
Beliefs
Sin
Jesus' Song
God

NEWTOWN: the aftermath

Let's not forget around the world  
So many children died that day.
The focus is on Newtown, for
The others are so far away.

Whenever there's a tragedy
Believers try to fit in God
Because they think it's in God's plan,
A view that we should not applaud.

No tragedy is planned by God;
But if God is, God will be pissed
If in the aftermath God sees
Another chance to change we missed.

The change we need to make is clear.
It's hard yet simple but profound.
We need to drain away beliefs
So we can see our common ground.

From there we reach out to the ends
Of our unique capacities,
To others, and to nature's God,
The way that's free of tragedies.

ECONOMY

Our vertical Economy                                
We worship as if it's a god.                        
However, it is powerless,
A pipe which we should not applaud.
The power that it seems to have
Is what we give Economy,
We then enable to decide
The life we have, what we can be.
The power we all give to it
Is generated as we try
To fill the void that's in our mind,
We find when asking, "Why am I?"

In our attempt to fill the void
We form a population cone
Around the economic pipe,
Each in a horizontal zone.
Our tries to fill the void with cash
Suck torrents of it out the top.
Since more will never be enough
The sucking force will never stop.
One at the top sucks in the most.
In zones below each one sucks less
Til at the base where just to live
One often sucks without success.
               
The population 'cone' we form
Around the source of cash we need
Divides humanity so we're
Disintegrated by our greed.  
Our tries have screwed our 'Mother' to
The point she's taking her last breath.
Our worship of Economy
Will cause our Mother Nature's death.

If we maintain Economy
Humanity will be undone.
We might survive if it is razed
To leave a horizontal one.
With it our 'Mother' we might heal,
Equality would be our way,
There'd be no conflict over cash,
To live we wouldn't have to pay.
So we'd be free to reach out to
The bounds of what we can become,
To others, and to Nature's God;
Thus adding to our human sum.

To be our servant not our god
Should be economy's intent.
If we create it we will find
A level one leaves all content.

AGE of ASININITY (rhymed reason)
ABORTION
ANALYZING CONFLICT (rhymed reason)
NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL (reasoned prose)
RACISM (rhymed reason)
COVID-19 vie er US (rhymed reason)
ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE (rhymed reason)
LIFE: a reaction to the void (rhymed reason)
KNOWLEDGE and ESSENTIAL FACTS (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: the death of us (rhymed reason)
WAR on POVERTY (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: a debacle (rhymed reason)
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (rhymed reason)
THE LAST WHY: the poem (rhymed reason)
OUR HISTORY and THE LAST WHY (reasoned prose)
AGE of ENTERTAINMENT (rhymed reason)
DONALD TRUMP (rhymed reason)
MY POETRY (rhymed reason)
TOGETHER (rhymed reason)
LAW of HUMAN NATURE (rhymed reason)
ALCOHOL, DRUGS, SEX and other anesthetics (rhymed reason)
RELIGION (rhymed reason)
SEX (rhymed reason)
AFTERLIFE (rhymed reason)
HAPPINESS (rhymed reason)
ALONE: an anthem for humanity (rhymed reason)
WAR on PEACE (rhymed reason)
SOLDIER’S LAMENT (rhymed reason)

BARACK OBAMA: four more years of same

The president's acceptance speech
Repeated thoughts from his old song.
"Our road [we've] traveled has been hard.
[As well] our journey has been long."

"Together we [will] rise and fall."
Is thinking that's still wrong it seems.
Together we will surely rise;
We'll fall pursuing "our own dreams".

To rise we need to dream the same.
A common purpose we must see;
To reach out to the limits of
Our own unique capacity.

He shouldn't praise our "politics".
"Democracy" reveals our fights.
Humanity will not survive
The battles for divisive "rights".

"These arguments are [not] a mark
Of liberty." They're chains that bind
Us to beliefs that keep us from
The freedom which we long to find.

We don't have "common hopes and dreams".
The poor dream to be "middle class".
Those in the middle hope to say,
"The rest of you can kiss my ass."

Until Economy is razed,
"The hope that something better []waits"
Will be Obama's legacy.
"God [cannot] bless these [untied states]".

Barack Obama: a cautionary view
Barack Obama: attack on greed
Barack Obama: fighting for change
Barack Obama: my hope
Barack Obama: victory speech
Barack Obama: inauguration day
Barack Obama: professing change
Barack Obama: sacrificing lives
Barack Obama: healthcare
Barack Obama: his Gulf oil war
Barack Obama: winning the future

SIN

The Bible says that sin began
The moment 'Eve' ate from the 'tree'.
It's not the act which screwed 'the plan'
That God had for humanity.
The first reflective question "Why?"
Was not the reason for "the fall".
Her act of asking "Why am  I?"
Made 'Eve' the mother of us all.
The "why?" though left a hole inside
'Eve' felt she needed to avoid
For fear, which she could not abide.
So 'Adam' tried to fill the void.
The void however, can't be filled.
It seems it's meant to be within
So wondering will make us thrilled.
Thus 'Adam's' try began our sin.

We try to fill the void eight ways.
Religions and philosophies
Are one attempt; and money pays;
And anesthetics try to please.
Preeminence and romance too;
Our spouse and kids; careers; and facts.
We blend some into what we do.
They're inwardly directed acts.

And thus the sins we choose conflict.
Like punishments just indicates
It matters not the sins we picked.
It is the conflict that God hates.
Believing God forgives our sins
And lets us carry on with life
Is where our present Hell begins,
A place of self-destructive strife.
To save our lives we must end Hell.
Extracting sins is difficult.
If we succeed, God's 'rose' we'll smell,
And "ideal" living will result.

Religion