TWO FRIEND SPEAK AS EQUALS.

CHOICES SNAP CRACKLE POP KNEES OR SIT AND SILENCE
I agree there is no sense

in bending my knee

to worship some pagan deity.

No government, corporation or Wall Street bank

will ever see me cower before them for I have already

with thanks given up all my wants.

And only am subject to my needs.

Food for the body,

knowledge for the soul,

peace for the spirit is all that is required of me.

And that one who makes these demands

laughs at a foolish me when before him I try to bend a knee

because he knows that for me

getting up from supplication is a painful experience.

That one true deity would rather we sit and talk

or take a short walk in the tree given shade

using our silence while ruminating over how it has come to be

that so many of the children of creation have come

to bend a knee to the worst pagan deity of all;

the call to hate and violence.

I can meet enmity and laugh,

no human that has ever lived ‘cept one

can make me utter tears of sorrow

simply because there is nothing I want

and my needs, you can bet;

they’re already met, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

© M Durfee

9/2/13