Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

Peek Freans Fig Roll

Peek Freans Fig Roll


You make me laugh

You think that the evil humanity does

Has nothing to do with you

And your excuses

And your prayers

For salvation

Merely continue the blindness

Of your refusal

To take responsibility

For the actions of your world


You have a comfortable retreat

In the bible

And comfort in believing

In a saviour

And you refuse to see

That the saving of your neighbour

Is up to you

You make me laugh

With your bible quoted platitudes

With your simple minded

Ineptitudes 

To take control of your conscience



Your fig leaf

And your Peek Freans fig roll of sweetness

Empty 

And wrapped in so much easy buy

To fit your mouths desire for something sweet

You cannot connect

You are as empty as all those possessions

You place so much esteem upon

You are the worst case of human evolvement

And evolutions greatest impediment


You are slaves

Slaves to religion

And slaves to God

Sightless in your slavery

And slaves to a system

Of capitalism

You are a poor excuse

For the rationalism and rebellion

That was once

Your ancestors right

And their history

You are all

Nothing but

Slaves

Nothing more than superstitious cavemen

Trying to explain the dark

And afraid to stand up

And be counted with the stars ( as in suns )

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Carolyn Devonshire July 22, 2009 at 3:39 PM Guess it's easier for some to hide behind a "fig leaf" than to rebel against injustices. It's a sad state of affairs when we are "afraid to stand up" for our beliefs and take some responsibility for our own actions. It amazes me how anyone can hide behind a Bible while allowing these injustices to continue. Seems pretty hypocritcal. Brilliant write again, Colin! Love, Carolyn