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THEY DID IT ALWAYS (re-issue)

 

 Celibate Priests, Fundamentalist Imams,
eagerly preach their delusive plans
 Protestant Vicars and Methodist lays,
give it out in gentler ways,
to simple folk in hallowed halls 
with pointy tops, round minarets,
brass artefacts, smooth marble steps.

The use of loud hailers and noisy bells
call the faithful to worship and god to please  
devotions observed on bended knees,
Venerable leaders in vigorous dispute
offer paths to Heaven by differing route
on varying surface stony or smooth,
stony they preach the most “with it” groove. 

Walk up, walk up, walk up this way,
walk up for sentence on judgement day,
when your average decent Joe and Jane
 hoping rigid piety was not in vain,
smile as each anticipates
 infinite peace, tranquillity,
beyond 'Dun roaming" pearly gates.
 
The suicide bomber with quickening pace
savours pleasures awaiting Heaven within,
can't wait to ravage, his first virgin,
anxious, impatient, full of self important worth.
Hope she’s not so ugly
as his last act on Earth.

Now the time has come to be profound
'cause when we’re dead and in the ground,
having lost all emotion and concupiscence
perform each the same task in unison, 
 decaying slowly without strife,
"obligatory cohesion"
 preposterous in life.
                                      
                           

 

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 4th Aug 2016 16:11

I like this essay on the presumptions of religious teaching.
I've this to say for a bomber's religion
It's like the droppings of an infected pigeon,
And HOW dare they presume to send
Better folk to death before their end!

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John Coopey

Thu 4th Aug 2016 10:17

I like this Ken.
I think the Big G is savouring his opportunity to meet me. He'll be thinking, "I'm going to have some fun with you, laddie".
Harry - they're virgins for a reason, you know.

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Harry O'Neill

Wed 3rd Aug 2016 23:44

Ken! Ken!,
Just as I was kneelin` down to say me prayers I come across this `bung `em all in together` rant` :)

It`s a good old mish - mash of the usual stuff save for that
the Christians don`t get promised virgins for blowin` people up. (they prefer to be blown up unaccompanied)

And where did you get this `tranquility` on Judgement day from (most of us will be shakin` with fright man!)

I`ll tell you what though: If I was a terrorist and had blown up oodles of people, I`d feel really sold short If I got an ugly virgin.

As for that last stanza;

`You think that it`s `profound`
Lying rotting in the ground?
You ugly miserable old moan
.........lie there on your own!

I`m off to finish me prayers...(you know I luv ya really):)

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