[Kami] A Submission, Round 2

Day 2,456, 01:43 • Published in Canada Spain • by The Forest Ranger

The Humanist Hymn

Somebody asks,
"Do you believe in god?"

I said
I believe in words
And Love
And the sound of tea
And the taste of music
On my fingers.

The world spins so fast.
Hard to tell
The flowers from the bullets
Or Lovers from fighters except
The flowers always seem to die in the end.
But blood always pools
In the ponds and streams
Hidden, but never gone.

How many died in Abraham?
In Passchendaele? In Dieppe?
In the American Civil War?

To think, we live in their shadows.
Barely brave enough to peek around
The edges of our own constructed
Misery. But never looking up

See the clouds, faint memories prod
The sense but can't seem to shake
The feelings of battle-worn
"Aren't we so brave? Aren't
We so much better than
Them damn Yanks?" -mentality.

See the clouds, hear the wind
Whispering by, feel proud
Of your heritage.
After all, us Canucks
Are so funny and humble.
Us Albertans are so brave
Down-to-earth-to-work
Kind of folk.
Unlike those boys out east
And there ain't nobody like us.

Nobody at all.

See the clouds, feel the shadow
And dare to move on.


Author's Note: Thank you all for the support, I've already made it father than I thought! FR

So it goes.