Paradoxes
From the Book, Unworthy Lives, Pages 72-73
Copyright © 1998, 2008
Jason Lester Atkins
985 Fleet Drive, #347
Virginia Beach, VA 23454
I the glowing spirit soul,
witnessing with Lazarus, the continuing battle
between Apollo and Abaddon:
Witnessing the incompatibility
of man's manufactured religions,
with the overpowering choices of man's duality:
Watching humanity's masses losing direction
in the clinging web of myths,
they are spinning around their God:
Seeing a nation, founded on a bill of freedoms,
marching its Cherokee peoples
for a thousand miles:
Creating a forest of children's graves
on this Trail of Tears,
beside the wilderness walk:
Seeing a nation, worshiping its Emperor,
assembling a war machine of its strongest sons,
invading neighboring city of Nanking:
Pillaging and raping screaming girls:
Recording a filmed record of their ravishing:
Sharing this recorded glory with their Emperor:
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