The Good Book has spoken

Jesus wept blood red tears

at the inhumanity of man

I died for your sins, m***********s,

and this is how you repay me

I sacrificed myself

upon a broken cross

and let some thieving b*****d live,

 I spent ten long years

as a Bedouin, an Essene,

Nazarene,

wandering the desert,

I spoke of esoteric things, 

holy things,

 I ingested soma, fly agaric,

Datura,

I was hunted as a prophet

and denounced as the same,

my wife and lover, a mother

was labelled as a w***e

and disregarded by history,

I know coz I was f*****g there,

the Egyptian Moses

was my mentor

a follower of the sun God Ra

and John was not

any old Baptist,

he was the original f*****g gansta

in the shadow time

of Rameses the third,

who denounced man as god

and blinked into the light

didn't you get the

message I left ?

I left it loud and clear.

Reviews

[Eilis]

Such a buffet of references here, Gram. I got excited reading this poem. Not in a creepy way, ha ha, but intellectually.

I have long believed that some of the best knowledge about religion, or rather, spiritual understanding comes from people on the outside looking in. People who have had experience and amassed knowledge, but chosen to walk another way. Some of my most important spiritual lessons came to me through reading Albert Camus.
Sometimes it is not the sacred but the human that touches the deepest. I’m sounding hokey, sorry, I’m not good at expressing this outside my head.

I wonder if some of your inspiration came from The Last Temptation of Christ. Just, I thought of the book while reading your poem. Some of your points.

History is complex, and human story, and the idea of sacredness polluted until all we have left are ourselves on pedestals stomping on the true image of origin.

I love this raw transcript of Jesus’ thoughts. This is how he sounds in my head. After all he spent his years of ministry loving the weak and sinful.

I don’t have anything clever to say. I just really like this poem. The slang alongside the erudition is excellent. A poem I’m jealous of. But I could never write like this.

[gram linski]

Hey, Eilis, if you are getting spiritual guidance from the plague and the fall( band named after the book), then you are one sick puppy infuckingdeed, no reference points as such just some random thought bubbles/sound bubbles invading my head, the man and the myth have merged melted into an unrecognisable thing, preached and prayed upon every Sunday morn, with scant regard for the truth,this may sound a tad deep, this was my light hearted answer,

[PaintedBirdy]

as a real christian, not one of the churchianity fuckfaces, i have to say i like this. my theological apologia is that words are not the truth but reveal the truth, therefore i can say anything, and so can you. there's God in it all, thank god. and yeah describing JtB as OG was pretty f*****g gansta in-itself. cheers, and praise heresy and irreverence when churches fail to see the obvious: which is love for your fellow. best wishes, because i never knew god to answer prayers.

[gram linski]

Glad you liked it, not really religious myself, but if you believe in a god, then may your god be with you, respect,

[Einstein Noodle]

shock effect works on me gram! there is great difference between a righteous anger (as when Jesus drove the money changers from the Temple) and an anger more like road rage ... John the Baptist a gangsta .. gotta love that ..he pulled no punches in honor of the truth .. i suppose there are some modern day gangstas that, by their "in your face" life style are somewhat similar ... the image of the Cross of Jesus being broken for me contains a great sadness ... when i think of the Biblical story of the great landlord sending his emissaries to check on the guy left in charge of one of his plantations only to be disrespected and sent packing .. some with beatings ... so he sent his beloved son .. whom the land owner thought surely would be listened to ... but they beat and killed him ... the beneficence of God refused ... His Son persecuted and tortured and finally executed ... because Jesus told the truth as He heard it from His Father in Heaven .. when all that is to no avail .. it is a broken cross indeed :(( lots of powerful messages to glean in you poem gram ... your Egyptian references not lost on me ;)
E.

[gram linski]

Thanks, E. 10/10 for your great review, you're biblical knowledge and the thoughts you express suggest a very spiritual guy, I'm a gnostic, by the way, not agnostic, why would anyone be against knowledge, lol, didn't mean to shock, only titilate

[Einstein Noodle]

good stuff says i ... i love when spiritual matters are brought up for thought and discussion .. all views ;)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

The thought of JTB as a gansta just broke me in two with laughter. Simply love this mix of biblical references and irreverence sir.

[gram linski]

Always a pleasure, dude, cheers

[Chris Shaw]

I have to say I quite like your version of the Good Book. It probably has far more truth in it than the original. Interesting poetry.

Chris

[gram linski]

Interesting guy, lol, always appreciate your reviews, Chris, thanks

[Chris Shaw]

You are welcome :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is one way to present it...and his father was a Godfather to it all...
i like the gangsta idea....and the idea of a cussing Jesus is interesting...will he have to go to confession for his blasphemy? and to whom could he confess...
i am reminded here of the joan osborne song...What if God was one of us, a slob like one of us...
the message here is loud and clear...God needs to be some one or something we can relate to in our terms, not his.
j.

[gram linski]

Good musical reference, j. hadn't thought of the song while writing but it does make sense, thanks

[Edie Blue Starfish]

I don't generally go for religious poetry but I can get behind this.
I enjoyed this.

[gram linski]

Don't worry I am not a religious nut job in any way shape or form, I have a pagan heart, cheers for the read,

[John Alexander McFadyen]

No simply a nut job and I have to question if that is indeed a heart inside that vacuous cavity! lol

[gram linski]

I strongly object to the term nut job, as an ex health care worker I expected better from you, dude, maybe a bit of diversity training, I think you meant to say f*****g bam, lol, as for the heart, it ws still beating when I nicked it