Kurt Philip Behm Poet Rhyme

False Prophets

What proclaims
to save our souls
is killing its believers 
Religion worse
than nuclear war …
born again deceivers

Breaking every
moral creed
stealing zero-sum
Ashes left to burn
and rot
—Yahweh on the run

(The New Room: January, 2023)

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John Lawless January 4, 2024 at 2:18 PM as the "My god's bigger than your god" battle rages. Kurt Philip Behm January 4, 2024 at 3:15 PM Amen John.

Hilda Greenhough January 4, 2024 at 12:34 PM Thanks for a change in a religious poem. Satan dwells in many places. Kurt Philip Behm January 4, 2024 at 3:14 PM Especially when we doubt his existence.