Friday, May 14, 2010
In God's name
In God's name we die;
In God's name we kill;
In God's name we cry;
In God's name we pay our bill.
In God's name we love;
In God's name we hate;
In God's name we blacken the white dove;
In God's name we accept our fate.
In God's name we make peace;
In God's name we marry each other;
In God's name we kill at ease;
In God's name we slain our brother.
Good and evil, hand in hand
Are in your name.
Life and death, blood in the land,
The human race's shame.
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We do many things in the God's name, but God hasn't spoken ever, perhaps because the same God doesn't already exist for humans.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice Sunday.
Who knows, Noray? God's a mistery.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Chop Poetry. I had a good Sunday, thanks a lot.
in the name of love...
ReplyDeletewhat more in the name of love...
classic!
in the name of Love...
ReplyDeletebetter...
Much better, eresmcicruz. Love rather than god. The Love of God is OK.
ReplyDeleteJosé Miguel reading your poem
ReplyDeletethis end. I do not know if it's more correct.
Is the first time I dare to write in English verses.
Written in the mud and the fire of His hands
In the blood of our fathers,
Cain and Abel,
life and death.
Chop-saludos
Excelent verses, dear Ramón. There's a problem in the rhyme. I've used consonant rhyme ABAB, and I want to keep it to the end.
ReplyDeleteCheers.