why were my eyes full

I.

why were my eyes full

my heart shattering?

II.

our tech-gods had chosen their twelve disciples

marked their heads with friendly fire

as if their death was some how different

since they died at commanders' hands.

heroes before the ground engulfed them

privileged mortals unique among the rest

God promised as their undisputed shield

swooping down to snatch their martyred souls.

III.

freshening-up evil as a good we needed to hear

the ram'blings of gods soothed the enraged souls

to lead us deeper into the dangerous frontier

stationing us stealth'ly beyond the heart of war.

IV.

thus my eyes are full

my heart is shattered

seeing a hundred thousand victims 

pilloried to a cross

Thoughts of Gil Bailie:

-The thing about Christians is that, at least formally, we make a point of saying that we are sinners -  not that we used to be, but that we are - and that you can count on our continuing to be so.

-We should all think of ourselves as religious Semites, which , by the way, would put us a little closer to Islam.

-Any time you have a marker, whether ethnicity or race or gender or physical handicap, when a society falls into chaos or crisis, there will be people who will seize that marker as a way of directing their confusion and fear, setting up the whole scapegoating business which [Rene] Girard has analyzed so powerfully.

The Promise

"I will give u liberty, but first give me ure spirit

This I must confiscate because the evil fear it."

I too would he afraid of passion governed by reason

An open mind 2 trying when corruption is in season

The promise that they claim

2 be completely true

is hypocrisy at its finest

A trick 2 silence u

never will I believe a promise

from the masters of the Art

trickery does not succeed

with those with Honest Hearts

-Tupac Shakur