Altering tides

Religious themed

I walked to the top of Everest

and when I got there

I got my shovel out

and dug up that cross

once left behind

as a symbol.

I meditated.

I called for the Buddha.

i centered life for one small instance

and realized life is made

beyond the pageantry

of some Christian God

that has kept

me alone

worshipping my own failed existance.

I prayed.

Talked to Jesus this time,

told him I must move beyond

sole preservation

of one Religious Ideology

and stop battling

with those demons

summonded by the anti-Christ.

I was renewed.

I buried some salty pork bones

I had left over

as my symbol

of a new generation.

One filled with new ideals,

new loves,

where everything

was alright,

and everything

was treasured.

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

How interesting. This poem seems to wrestle with the question of spirituality versus religion, and ends up leaving the reader feeling the speaker made the right choice.

[thewholesoul]

I got the sense of a person leaving behind the dogma of religions and the spiritual icons such as jesus and budha to a love of everything, the realization perhaps, of the infinite value intrinsic to everything in this universe including ourselves.

[Christopher Staab]

Right on man. I have yet to learn everything but want to learn as much as I can as it comes to me. Defianelty believe in a little bit of everything. Great comment.