The Avenging Angel

July 14, 2013

The avenging Angel soon may visit us

Intolerant of wickedness and greed

His appearance on our paltry human scene

May well announce a god who will succeed

Mankind consumed by animosity

Towards his kind, unable to live in peace,

Destroyer of the beauty of the earth,

Whose hatred, lust and anger does not cease.

Unwilling to rise beyond the animal self

Inapt to look within, a flame to find

To burn away the darkness of his state

Such pleasure takes in the brilliance of his mind

Locked in a pathetic lump of clay

To live awhile on his brief road to death,

His insignificant gains eroded by time,

In silence or in pain draws his last breath

Fading into nothingness as dust.

Sad is his fate who cannot seek for God

Or truth in a world of falsehood racked with pain.

Religion fails, for on its truths we’ve trod

And all our sects are but a hollow gain

Unless the many wake to find the soul

Rescind this evil's reign to reach the goal.