eight::fourteen

The command, "Destroy,"
percolates in minds
when only air and acid
stir in a people's belly.
And suddenly the God
carries out mass murder
to explain the raping
of the creation,
humans, honey, milk, wheat,
olives, trees, chickens, cows,
by a people immature,
a crowd prone to whining.
Masses forget the Garden
planted by the hands of God,
and they forget
the command to commune
to be made one again,
to be found once again,
to recline without end
under the luscious green branches
of the trees
some thousands of feet
below an old Mesopotamian sea.
And then one remembers
and reminds,
telling friends and enemies,
"Become children, again."
For this people forgot the soil
from which it was raised,
to which it will return,
and assumes it has always been
in the afternoon of its life,
denying the morning,
blinding its eyes to the night,
working, working, working
with no end in sight.
If only a simple sheep
would find itself found
brought back into the cycle,
back into the wide creation.

(Deuteronomy 31:1-8, Deuteronomy 32:3-4, 7-9, 12, Matthew 18:1-5, 19, 12-14)