Who Is Right As Hell? Poem by Arno Le Roux

Who Is Right As Hell?

In every country coloured humble crowds
Sing and praise Gods as long as time allows
Some with noisy clapping dancing vows
Some pray high and honour holy cows

Some light candles keeping evil dark at bay
Some with insence as they meditate and pray
Some serve communion to wash the sins all gone
Some look to crosses as their day is done

Some are confident they have been here before
Some touch holy water just as they pass the door
Some are preaching of a heaven and a hell
Some will ask you of dreams of God to tell

How many rituals are followed for this lesson
How many ways our pain and suffer lessen
How many saints protect us on our road
How many Gods are there to help and lift our load

Each read of miracles and list them as they pray
Through their book never from God to stray
If God has eyes and staring down at this
Does He cry over all the things we miss

How many ways are drawn on God's great map
How many prayers for each one wears His cap
How many wars religious ones have booked
Ordering blood of fellows they mistook

Maybe God's not bothered the arguments we win
Maybe not knowing of others' Book is sin
Maybe we're all hell - bound fighting o'er who's right
While we kill in competition ignoring a Brothers' plight

Arno Le Roux 2015