What I need
This isn’t a poem.
Sorry. It lacks a poet and it lacks rhyme.
What it has are words of a mortal fool.
A fool who has it figured out.
Yes, I know what I want.
What I want is another God.
They taught me a praise,
They made me sing,
He’s got the whole world in his hands.
Great thing to do, thank you very much.
Hold the globe in your hands,
And run around the sun.
I need a God with honor.
I don’t want the bad guys to always win.
Why let them win?
I couldn’t watch the devil hurting my dear ones.
I have dignity.
A bearded man told me
He lets the bad guys win because He is great.
Was he a Mullah? A Swami? A Rabbi?
Or a priest who doesn’t shave?
The bad guy wins because God is great?
I don’t need greatness.
I need justice.
Heaven is Ostentatious.
Kashmir is burning.
I want a poet, not a mute.
Praise my beauty, chide my wronging,
Warn me before I make my mistakes.
You are a God,
Don’t sit there and watch Discovery channel.
And in the end, these books decree,
He’ll say, “I told you so”.
I want someone with an opinion.
Someone who will let us know.
When I fell a tree too much,
Warn.
When I quarry the mountains
Protest.
When I pollute,
Punish.
I need a God with fairness.
I don’t need Africa and America.
I need Utopia.
I don’t want black, white, brown, red and yellow.
I want colors not skin tones.
I don’t need tornadoes and hurricanes,
Tearing down homes,
while a hundred miles away,
the landscape scorches in famine.
Give us sunshine, give us rain.
I don’t want pygmy, and paratroopers,
I don’t want bow legged bushmen and Versace,
Give me a farmer, give me football.
Give me a patch of grass,
Give me the shade of a tree and a stream.
Let us drink nectar, chill.
Set forth your angels,
Bring wrath upon the war mongers,
Bring down the symbols of man.
No children born with ailments,
Don’t test, believe.
Why tempt and torment a few,
When you can give the others?
Don’t expect faith, prove.
If you have created faint hearted
Volcanoes should spare the good people.
Tear down the skyscrapers that challenge nature
No babel, No tongues.
Tongues of flames.
The city is Hell,
Infested with rabid rodents and roaches,
Tear it down.
Don’t let them destroy the Amazon,
to build Disneyland.