The search for something more

The search for something more

in senses not sensing

only teased toward sensation

the cover for The More

the spiritual divine

clawing for an opening

from inside (soul)

out of the heart

through what matters

of body parts and being

for exposing God

to a world unsure

in denial, in denial

that the more is at home

one's home gnawing

to break through the cage

where The More is engaged

*The achievement of the Judaic tradition is that it identified God's presence as historically true, that God acts in time.  It also established what I have argued is a strong masculine cult, which characterizes the desert religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  It has also made of those traditions an activistic cult, in that we are required to participate in religious life as actors in history - just as God does - rather than ejecting ourselves from history.  This is a powerful idea, and  our present calamity has come about because the desert religions are at each other's throats.  We find ourselves faced with a religious experience which is only masculine, and nowhere more so than in Islamic fundamentalism, almost to a hideous degree.  The feminine impulse is largely missing from that history.

While I continue to find abortion abhorrent, I no longer trust male domination of the woman's body.  I also have my crisis of faith.  As a gay Catholic, I find the sexual breakdown of the clerical order astonishing and not without interest, not only in that it has been so predominantly homosexual, but in that it is infantile, preoccupied with children almost as though it were an expression of a kind of unformed sexuality.

-Richard Rodriguez

*For Mrs. Hawkins

This poem is addressed 2 Mrs . Hawkins

who lost her son 2 a racist society

I'm not out 2 offend the positive souls

only thre racist dogs American culture plagued with nights

like the night Yusef was killed

if it were reversed it would be the work

of a savage but this white killer was just strong-willed

But Mrs . Hawkins as sure as I'm a Panther

with the blood of Malcolm in my veins

America will never rest

if Yusef dies in vain!

-Tupac Shakur