Abdul Malik Mandani Poet Free verse

Religion of Love

Each religion has its own ideology
Its own house of worship
It has its own dialect,
It is bounded by 
its own rites and rituals
Its own drama and myth
It has its own justice system 
Its distinct way of atonement
Its own unique style,
It is partial and onerous,
It promises heaven in afterlife
but creates living hell on earth. 

It demands total obedience,
Total reverence
It defers explanation
It defies reasoning
It professes eternal life
and exacts strict wages;

Each religion has its own
interpretation of God
Each has a special pathway to heaven
Each designates dire caveat for hell.


Love, on the other hand, is free,
Free of all nuisances
Free of all boundaries
Free of all rites and rituals
Free of all race and creed,
It speaks with the eyes
Listens with the heart,
It only seeks soul mates,
It is universal
It encompasses all
and excludes none.

Love is but Love;
Love just happens,
There’s no beginning
And once began
there’s no ending.

True Love is omnipotent
It is omniscient 
It is omnipresent.



~Religion and/or Philosophy contest by Kai Michael Newmann

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