Worthwhile

5^th August 2012

So, has it been worthwhile?

It took two marriages and one drawn-out affair

To find, to choose, to pick

The right, the only one that suits my bed and board.

I do not see a God

Benign or vengeful or at all concerned

With what I do or think,

I, homo sapiens, amongst a million others.

The fable will not die

That Moses climbed up to the very top

Of Sinai to write

The Ten Commandments and associated works.

But be they deity given

Or written by a moralist with a penchant

To cloth the naked truth

In brilliant garments, dazzling mind and reason,

I feel obliged to listen

To what the priest, the rabbi, and the mufti

Declare in unison:

Our creed and tolerance are all the same;

The God or Gods of neighbours

And our own constrain us to observe

Their dictates and their rules

And stern commands - and airy promises.