Monday, February 9, 2015

IF YOU CAN NOT SAVE YOURSELF...



RELIGION: A FEW QUESTIONS
I wonder at times how much it hurt
as the spikes were pounded in,
until flesh was firmly attached to wood.
How expert they must have been
to not hit the arteries during
this crucifixion of good
to take away the evil
from the multitudes of mankind.
I wonder at times if rising from the dead
and living on was worth the effort
of his pain and his mothers crying
as he hung there dying
seeing as what all have become,
even though as rumor has it God
allowed the sacrifice of his only son
to defeat a death
that must have been eternal
for death still rules
here in the realm mortal.
I wonder who the fool was, so indelicate
that termed us mankind
when mancruel is much more appropriate.

© M Durfee
2.9.2015

18 comments:

  1. Powerful and I like the play on the word "mankind." We certainly can be a cruel race.

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    1. What I haven't quite figured out yet Jeff is the cruelty a part of our DNA or some gene or is this just us in our evolutionary walk? All I can be certain of is if we do not change soon we will kill ourselves, no help needed.

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  2. Cruelty seems to be the rule. I hurt for humanity

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    1. Most endearing comment of all Charles. I hurt as well.

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  3. mark, this is poignant and so damn sad. has this level of inhumanity threaded throughout our history and it is the media that shoves it into us again, or is this the best we can do? i am constantly amazed how differently the same events and the same injustices are viewed, depending on who's looking to hold the power.

    this is a wonderful poem as far as wonderful poems go. it insists on reflection at the deepest level

    love you always
    kj

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    1. kj You know as hard as i try i can not bolt away from social justice issues right now. I see, hear and read of so much wrong, I have to question everything that is supposed to be our better selves. Where the hell has it gone? When i find it again, i can go back to writing about liquor, whores and having a good time.

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  4. Mark, you've hit the nail squarely on the head. Oddly enough, the Carpenters are playing in the background . . . "We've Only Just Begun . . ."

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    1. Oddly enough in the context of "forever" or eternity or even the scientific proven length of days of the universe, yes we have only just begun, But though my life be but a blink in that context I sure as hell am given plenty of room to create havoc in society.

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  5. man is cruel...
    how far have we fallen from being in the image of god...
    to being more to creating a god
    that is more in the image
    of us...

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    1. I believe that there was a very short window to get our spiritual reality right Brian, and as is the way of us, we closed it before all of the fresh air could get in.

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  6. Mancruel sounds like an accounting term.

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    1. It is a debit and not a credit, that is sure enough Alice.

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  7. I hope Jesus has no regrets for his ultimate sacrifice ~ Those ending lines pierces sharp as thorns Mark ~ Man is still as cruel as can be ~

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    1. If one trusts what we know of the Jewish texts including the Gospels Grace his regrets were expressed in his fears in his prayers the moments before he was taken by the Romans, hanging on the tree, I think he was consumed with pain but also knowledgeable of the fulfillment of 4000 years of prophecy; hence the last words he reportedly spoke as a mortal man--It is finished.

      The thing about the nature of Jesus' teaching was he changed the fundamental knowledge man at the time had of God, if there is regret to be had it is that the lesson of God as a father of humanity, a kind watchful father never caught on. With all the power seekers doing just as Eve did in the Garden, by twisting what was said, adding to it, taking away from it, keeping people ignorant of the simplicity of the it.

      We have not evolved in our spirit or souls very much in the past few millennium.

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  8. I think there is a lot of background kindness drowned out by the loudly wicked.


    ALOHA from Honolulu
    ComfortSpiral
    <3

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    1. I will give that there is kindness left in the world but it is being stomped out like a coat on fire Cloudia.

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  9. Mark-Mancruel seems to be the norm. xo

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