Deities

I wonder at the deities

Who inhabit immortality.

Allah, Jesus, Adonai,

Of the many, they but three

Humans choose to glorify.

Do they co-exist in harmony

Or spend forever stormily

Decrying each the other’s teaching,

Lightning, thunder in their armory,

Epithets and enmity increasing?

What a raucous atmosphere

Must be routinely displayed there

As they blaspheme, judge and shout,

Each insistent to declare

Their worshippers are most devout.

It could explain how we on earth

Learned to hate and kill and curse

Brothers sharing gods' creation,

Different only by their birth,

All intent on condemnation.

Copyright 2015 --Ken Ragan