What if nobody was right?

Sometimes the silence gives me too much time to think,
and my mind invariably strays to those few special childhood moments,
maybe our lives are merely a series of moments,
and our anguish is caused by the loss of one special moment,
and our desire for the next...

But childhood brought with it a level of love and understanding,
which is so starkly absent from all of our current lives.
in the blink of an eye, we went from our mothers promising to buy us
the moon or a mocking bird, if only we would only just go to sleep,
and the unconditional pledge of defense of our most tender cause..

To a rude awakening, where we found a world filled with so much
turmoil, anger and confusion,
where murder rape and genocide are everyday words...
Sometimes in those moments of traumatic realization,
I have turned to the sanctity of religion and of God...

But religion is a poor ambassador in the realm of peace...
For years most churches have waged a war against
those who were in any way different,
from the crusades to the modern abortion clinic assassins...

These churches do more to propagate the ideologies of hatred and prejudice...
than the people of the world would have done themselves
if they were just left in peace to figure it out alone...

Now I see a growth in the tyrannical and bigoted branches
of the fundamentalist Christian movement, who instead of any form
of acceptance, preach wildly that if you are not an unquestioning follower,
then they will not hear your voice....

At these times I wonder what Jesus would truly have done...

For me the answer there is that a follower of any kind of fair God,
would embrace ALL those around him or her...
no matter what their beliefs.. or lifestyles
or how they voted last summer...

Unconditional love (as preached) to me should be just that...

UNCONDITIONAL

perhaps the answer lay with the hippies of the 60's and 70's..
or the Buddhists or Hindus.... Perhaps nobody was right there either..
And this is not just a question of faith...
this is a heartfelt desire for a return to the innocence of our youth.
a world actually devoid of politics...

where what is known and taught is not selfish behavior...
but of free flowing love and support....
one that has no boundaries...
no rules of membership.. and instead of fighting like
a pair of stray dogs on crack
about who may or may not have done what...
Bands together and looks for the solution...

I know it is possible if I look to the children of this world....
for them, there are no such boundaries...
for them all things are possible....
after all, their mothers just promised them the moon...

I hope when they finally realize that the moon might not actually arrive...
that what is there for them is somewhat more understandable,
than the chaos and pain which I see in the world....

Until then I'll sit in my moment... and remember what it was like
to have sand between my toes..
Ice cream and chocolate on my face...
a bucket full of freshly caught worms at my feet,
and a positive view of the adventure which lay ahead :)