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.

7 comments:

  1. 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.


    Have a nice Sunday.

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  2. Who knows, Noray? God's a mistery.

    Welcome to Chop Poetry. I had a good Sunday, thanks a lot.

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  3. Much better, eresmcicruz. Love rather than god. The Love of God is OK.

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  4. José Miguel reading your poem
    this 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

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  5. 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.

    Cheers.

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