- eric aspen marley
Sow What Will It Be: A Poetic Question for Christianity

A little prose
To break your knows
A freethinking fist in your faith
The Jesus you teach
Has gone to the beach
And left you to deal with your wraiths
He left you instruction
A lifelong injunction
To leave all your bombs at the gate
To enter in peace
And drop to your knees
Releasing your fears and your hate
But it makes you uneasy
Dem Muslims is sleazy
Muhammad you’re called to abate
So, you smuggle bombs in
Through the gate – it’s no sin
To defend your most holy of states
But that’s not what He taught...
Your religion is fraught
With the blood that is always the fate
Of those who adorn
The truth with the thorns
Of their fears that are harder than slate
Sow what will it be
Will you follow our Jesus
On soft summer breezes
That blow through the souls of the Few
Who play in the sun In the light of the One Refracting his light like the dew?
Or...
Will you bow to your fear
O religious bombardier Heart drier than September fescue?
Your eyes wet with tears Dark soul in arrears Play acting an unholy rescue?
--Eric Marley April 2015
(Amazing artwork: Warren Wong)