Is Your Soul In Here?

Detachment

Christians surge into the fray;

Muslims beat themselves and pray;

Jews are eager to repay;

Hindus starve, Buddhists decay...

Where's the love and unity

Behind this grisly sovereignty?

Why are We so deaf and dumb

To God's pure equilibrium?

Jesus loved Moses;

Mohammed loved both; and,

Krishna and Buddha

Have taught the same growth

But we close our

Eyes and our

Ears and our

Hearts while millions,

Religiously, suffer these darts of

Hatred and bigotry

Turned into arts...

The Answer of the Ages to this

Horrible

Plight?

"Attachment to the Lantern is not

Loving the

Light."

~~~ the quote is from the Bahá'í Writings...

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