Human conscience

Not to pray. In God's name deny

Next world promises

Man-made lethal lies 

Of a Man-imagined paradise

Heaven's rivers in spate

run red with human blood

 

Murderous metaphysics multiply

Myriad-worded menus

Without a scrap of food

And blood for wine

Sustain Man's brute addiction

To religious power, might, and death

Not in our names 

Despairing, weeping Gods decry

 

Only in the form of absence 

May we love unbound

For us the only absolute

Is life: this life, not some future lie

This wondrous, sacred gift of now

Fragile finite transient

Our sole duty to preserve

This end all means must serve

 

The gods are in despair today

jesus weeps: mohammad mourns

and elah's wrath is roused

Their creation, Man whose love of hate

and hate of love ascends

women, givers of life He rapes unheard

What a piece of work is Man

Death His dominion now.