DECEMBER 2005

 

Vision Quest
written by       CARTIERX

"For all is vanity & vexation of the spirit."
-King Solomon, Book of Eccl.

Ancient powerful Spirits
Dwell among us
Have their Way
Cursed Elephants
Flung down from Heaven
making sure
Judas daily earns his pay
A Host of Fallen Angels
Keepers of every Gate
Meanwhile minor demons
fill the
hearts & minds
of Man with Greed & Hate.
Old Money Politicians
Dukes & Earls of Industry
Royal Secret Societies
rule Empires tight fistedly
Control the world’s resources
Maintain the statusquo
But London Bridge is falling
The Whore of Babylon
is “gettin’ Roll’d”
War mongering Dollarmites
spend hueman lives like chattel
in their profiteering Games of War
Lord I know a change is comin’
But sometimes it gets hard to see that far
Civil war is brewing
Cain is slowly losing his grip
Stubborn Dollarmites
                            desperately clinging
                                                     to their tangible
Investments
are going down like sinking ships
Lord take from me this bitter cup
that makes mine eyes to See
how Realities create
the suffering of Humanity
You told me to seek & I would find
I opened every door but it nearly cost my mind
Lord I’m tired but I pray with Grace I passed the Test
Thank you merciful Lord
for each lesson... each adventure
of my
Vision Quest.


© 11/15/05
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Facing the Truth

Historically illiterate people ask, "Why do they hate us?"

Uninformed people say, "We must stop the large influx of refugees even if we have to kill them to stop them from reaching our shores. If we don't they will soon take over our countries."

These two are firmly linked. Has anyone in government said truthfully to the people, "No happy, content, and liberated people leave their homeland, families and houses risking life and limb to go and beg for a low paying job in a foreign place?

Why do these people leave their homes and surge into so called developed countries?

Because they are subjugated, oppressed, poor, exploited, hungry or persecuted people who aspire to a decent life for themselves and their children in a relatively wealthier, supposedly free land."

First we should ask and seek answers to the following:

Who is behind the many tyrants subjugating and oppressing these poor desperate people?
Who exploits their strategic positions, their resources, their wealth, and their manpower?
Who has stolen and then partitioned their land and placed boundaries without even consulting the people it would affect?
Who placed their enemies in positions of power to control them?
Who bombed their homes, slaughtered and maimed them and their children and caused overwhelming destruction to their land and lives?

I think if we look truthfully and without bias at these questions we would come up with just a few answers: The UK, the US, and lately Australia and Canada. Europe was in the past just as guilty but it is making great strides in the opposite direction because they have realised some of their many mistakes. But there is still considerable room for them to improve.

What is the US, Canada and Australia but land brutally snatched from the native inhabitants by the wealthy European countries of the past, and populated with colonists, immigrants and refugees of poor, and persecuted people of other lands.

We all know how there came to be so many Africans in the US. So if we want fewer refugees, fewer people who hate us, and less 'terrorism' around the world we should stop our exploitation of the poor countries, compensate them for all our evils and help them to get on their feet, not by throwing some charity their way to ward off hunger but real help. If we the people believed in real justice that would be it. But justice wears no blindfold and her scales are badly out of balance.

We should stop characterising ourselves as 'civilised', 'democratic', 'cultured', 'righteous', and above other nations.
We cannot continue invoking God's name for our atrocities.
We cannot continue to allow thousands of people to suffer and die of hunger and disease every few seconds while many of us satisfy our greed and wallow in decadence, and wasteful profusion.

If we want to act in God's name, then let it be as He taught us, with love, respect, and tolerance for our fellow human beings.

We should all take a long, hard look at ourselves and our ways, otherwise we will continue to allow those that control our nations to wage unjust wars in the name of democracy, really, to make themselves and their mega rich friends even richer and more powerful whilst creating a world that can only become a much worse place for our children to inherit from us.

Marina Karacosta, Greece