Clerical Errors
Clerical men, lest God be offended
By a young woman’s misplaced scarf, allowed
Her beating to death. Repeatedly vowed
Righteous destruction will not be blunted,
But visited on the chosen people
Of the very same God, who in their turn
Have striven hard to dispossess and burn
Their Abrahamic neighbours. They cripple
Their people’s thinking with holy fallacies,
Flags and lines drawn on maps. While, without qualms,
Nominal Christendom supplies the arms,
With political consciences at ease.
By and for benefit of humankind,
A very different world must be divined.
D. A.