in a world tugging,

pulling,

drawing and quartering each soul apart.



Mercy,

humanity,

love,

effortlessly, resistance-free, perish, and

depart.



Embracing ignorance, hugging credulous unreason,

fracturing the human bones,

cartilage, tendons ripped,

shattered hearts, broken minds, pelted by apathetic stones.


There can be but one answer,

simplistic as it may sound:

teach respect, not creed,

worship shared humanity,

shun lecherous greed,

only then,

may we truly, as one,

from our common fountain peacefully feed …