Gods etc

 

“What good do they really do at all?”

said the Man in the Grubby Overcoat –

“ ..and how many are there out on call?

All swanning on in the same old boat -

There’s an ‘ology god produced by ‘Science’

as spurious as artistic licence -

There’s a Christian god and a Jewish god

and a Moslem god and god knows what

many more Hindu gods with a gem

in the head sitting on a flower pot -

there’s lots of Chinese and Tibetan ones

spinning wheels to make the prayers work -

gods can’t say anything for themselves

they have to be quoted by some berk

as wise as me who has revelations,

dreams and schemes and incantations

unless some bugger does it for’em

Christian, Jewish, or even Moslem

they think they have a holy right

to execute in day or night

perhaps with a knife or bloody sword

a gun or a bomb just at the word

of a GOD who doesn’t have the might’

unaided who cannot even smite

but with the sanctioned common will

a problem means you have to kill.

in The Name Of any raging God.

ruling with the famous iron rod”

 

“In truth you’re right” exclaimed the priest

“you cannot prove that gods exist

each is an idea, not an entity

excused, absolved in perpetuity”

 

So using the properly blesséd knife

he killed the children and the wife.

and later still (the papers wrote)

the Man in the Grubby Overcoat.

 

And so you see, all you who grieve

Charity’s available - if you believe.