Seismic the destruction bottled 

to maim, to kill, to dominate the horde

then beamed like some lighthouse on a nervous shore

spilling blood bottled as a Nobel prize

It seems callous, heartless, emotionless to a fault

that what's been cursed a hundred thousand times

is sanctioned by the maddened peons

appealing to the insanities of the crowd

as enough death to consider to consider us strong

Leaders salute stagnate air

gas-passing o'er the media wires

building ardor 'mongst us slobbering for war

leaping hard-drugged under the cauldrons of hate

encased in some magical Easter wrappings

protected from our enemy's hands

awash in flat promises of victories we'll win

I go crazy, wondering if God knows what's about

wondering how we slaughter each other patiently

marching 'neath the banner of theological themes

God has given us to enter the fray

Stories and tales are repeated year after year

Murder and gags torture the Word

all for the good of the conquering nation

arrogant leaders of a people with anxious gods 

Not enough death to reconsider ones worth

nor enough Earth destroyed to reconsider our cause

We kill off and on to purify our world of dread

purging the universe of the demons occupying our minds

There upon a cross the Best Victim hangs crucified

begging forgiveness of the Father since we know not what to do

But Some Thing's been long released

and we claim it's not tears

We mull with eyes watering

envious for peaceful years

*Reflections of Alan Jones:

  -In order to be formed into a person, a human being has to be organized around a center.

  -...we all find a center, a love, and order our lives within the circle of our allegiance.

  -The desert believer's soul is formed through (their) double process of the making and breaking of circles.

  -Lovers understand this because they have to learn what it is to hold another without chaining up the other's soul.

  -The God of our Savior Jesus Christ is the center of a faith that is as much concerned with braking and letting go as with holding and binding.  It is a faith for lovers.  The believer claims that this double action of holding and breaking is characteristic of the life of God himself.  Love is God's name.  Genuine lovers and true believers know how far they are from being able, in any consistent way, to hold and let go at the same time.

  -The inability of human beings to reach out and touch each other causes many of us to suffer from a deformed and crippled sense of self.