an enveloping bleakness
lived day-by-day.

No proclaimed
‘religion’.

Banished by ‘UN’ nations.

Given governmental power

to ‘freedom of worship’
globally… slay.

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You may ‘think’
finally united…

‘Peace and Security!’
earthly

‘heavenly’
portrayed,

as commercial merchants
‘weep and mourn’ her– Babylon the Great,
her finest customer…

savagely ravaged.

Quickly dead;
eternally laid.

‘Too bad, too bad,
the great city,

clothed with fine linen, purple’, ‘scarlet’
‘richly adorned with gold’,
‘precious stones’,
‘pearls’,

‘in one hour
such great riches’
devastated!’

What a pity?

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Is this too expensive a price
for ‘warmongering religion’

an international disruptive force
to have to pay; hence,

its destruction
for national interests

considered totally… Hey! ‘Ay, okay’?

*

You may ‘think’
finally united…

while any ‘craftsman
who practices any trade’

daily monies for his family
to be indefinitely delayed’.

*

You may ‘think’
finally united…

though ‘no voice of a bridegroom
and of a bride

will ever be heard’ in her ‘again’.

“What God has yoked together”
suddenly hushed

a buried vow,

as ‘happifying’
secular words
outwardly spoken

are compromised… trade.

No church bells shall ring ‘convene’.
No tinsel on trees evergreen.
No consumer ‘gifts’ of ‘generosity’ seen.

No eggnog shared.
No ‘Christmas’ parade annually.

Hidden
‘Faith’…

Practically unseen.

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You may ‘think’
finally united…

Sports in entertainment
increasingly violent; aggressively mean

consuming minutes to years
on fields or screens

as a growing minority
hoard

their
‘god’

powerful
mighty
worldly

‘green’.

As a majority
laud

this dollar ‘king’.

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You may ‘think’
finally united…

when international armies
stand daily on scene

to enforce
a liberating
‘freedom’–

actually
slavery

to immorality’s
deathly reign.

For ‘morality’
is no longer
maintained;

galloping
bucking

as black stallions
myriads

driven by

virtually
‘profane’.

While,
‘truth seekers’

nationally disdained
hunted prey
for radical slaying

pray:

‘Thy Kingdom Come!’