Strategically...Theirs Was....A Brilliant Plan Poem by James B. Earley

Troubling....once thinking...of it
....Viewing it from where I stand
Wondering.....the logic...of it
....Was it not the brilliant plan

Kidnap....a people...from their homeland
Then four hundred long years enslave...
Christianity's chains now entwine them
...From the cradle....to the grave

Ancestral gods all stripped and taken
....Tribal cultures......forever banned
In its stead...blue-eyed - blond haired Jesus
....Yes...it was.....a brilliant plan

If I could only.....for....a moment...
Visit...my great...great...great..greats
Folks from way back before the exodus
.....Long before...they would...create

Christianity's marauding band of evil
....Slavery's bondage..thus the Klan
Ancestral gods stripped and taken
...Indeed...theirs was....a brilliant plan

Strategic.....the logic...of it
....Was it not the brilliant plan
Troubling....once thinking...of it
...When viewing it...from where...I stand