The flame dies
Its quivering dance
Ends in a misstep
When you say the words
“Waging War Against God”.
The earth shakes
And disappears
Beneath our feet
When you say the words
“Waging War Against God”.
The tongue chokes
And our breath leaves
As smoke pouring from our ears
When you say the words
“Waging War Against God”.
The bewilderment echoes
In the chambers of our hearts
Of how one creature of God
Could hang another
From a crane!
In His name!
Of how a child murderer
A rapist
A baton wielding abuser
Could kill
A woman without a scarf
A child walking on the street
A mother on her balcony
And Say
THEY are
Waging War Against God.
I want to ask you,
When your God looks you in the eye,
What will he see?
How sad for you that day will be
When you find yourself
To be nothing, Godless for eternity.
I want to tell you,
We have eyes too.
The mothers, the fathers, the children
You killed
Their names sing in our eyes.
Millions of eyes
Singing their names
And THAT god,
Will always be theirs, and ours, and mine.
And our voices will rise, and rise, and rise.