Warriors of the Rainbow



Eyes of Fire weeps of our pale use.
She yearns for the forest and soil to converse,
urging that our actions be those of love,
not those of war or destruction of the eartH.

Pray…


© 2012 by mark richard prime

A Solemn Prayer


End all war, spilled the rain! End all murder, boomed the thunder! End all lies, strafed the wind! End all treachery, slashed the lightening! End your attack of me, quaked the earth!

I said we are selfish towards our home and our prayers are about us saving our own skins. We have not seen that our spoiling of the earth is our gravest sin, that we’ve turned away from truth and it’s too late to recognize ourselves as the murderers of love.

End all destruction to your home! End your lies told to yourselves as if they were your instinct! End all torture!

I pleaded with God to understand that we had fallen when our greed superseded our love. I cried my loudness to the ground, to the air, to the water, to the mountains, to the forests, to the stars, to the wind, to the rain, to the snow, to the whole of God! I wept, I begged, I screamed, I prayed! God listened with love, but held us to our original pledge.

(Silence.)

I begged God to release more love upon the air, send more love through the weakened soil, upon the music playing in the changing winds, to pour more hope within the rain, but God would have none of it.

It is you that must love without want, without payment expected. Keep your vow to her waters, to her mountains, to her trees. Love and you reveal truth.

Echo…


© 2012 by mark richard prime


Burning Head-Lines


The flames lick our loveless wars. Hordes of wagging tongues give rise to anger, adorned in the color of grief, we push our feet toward failure, soon to tumble to heaven’s floor…

More death, more rage, more contempt, more senseless bloodshed over beliefs. Kill, murder, misery and sorrow! 

Might we summon our humanity back from the edge that awaits our headlong extinction?

Ready! Aim! Fire at will! Slay thy human brother, murder thy kith and kin, exterminate, destroy, and slaughter!

(“Shoot to kill” was the order, how else is one supposed to follow such instructions?)



© 2012 by mark richard prime


Our Contempt Unmasked


Our breath is atrocious, crowding the air, our teeth, fanged relics slanted, bent of intolerance and proud minds fetching the face of wretchedness with leaching maws of foaming hatred. We must find our contempt unmasked, find our repugnant and false-hearted wars most contemptible as we use our depraved dribble to spackle the holes we’ve put in God.

Tell me, oh mighty war, that they did not suffer? Tell me, oh potent combat, that they didn't needlessly die for our mantle and plot? Oh reckless courage, collateral death, are we set to fail creation?

Humankind's blind grasp of truth is no more than a churning obituary held up to fading mirror...


© 2012 by mark richard prime

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