Annual Report

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World religions have caused strife and division in the world for centuries. Is  it not time they made more real effort and less cosmetic posturing to work together if only to keep their promises of love and peace?

Less one-upmanship and more mutual respect among the followers of this religion or that would be a good start. As for people like me who subscribe to no religion, don’t we deserve some respect too?

A I often say on the blogs, our differences do not make us different, only human.

Doesn’t humanity deserve a better chance to realise its greater potential than than various socio-cultural-religious tensions across the world are prepared to permit?

Well, doesn’t it...?

ANNUAL REPORT

Born to lead, fulfil, unite;

invariably, though, dividing,

losing sight of how many

choosing to fight on one side

rather than risk losing face,

faith in interpretations of rights

and wrongs plainly pointing

to a war strategy - for victory

over mortality

Come to bring peace, hope;

Invariably, though, screws up

at practically every turn

for each well-meant move taken,

every word preached ringing

with sincerity - truth’s old enemy

better placed than any

to take a dove’s eye view

of our morality

Pigeon-holed by history,

shaped by the eternal mystery

of Creation, each to our own

interpretation and verification

according to our temporal

needs, desires, lighting the fires

of spirituality - a common

humanity or personal gain,

as the case may be

Christianity, Islam, whatever,

can do better, must try harder

Copyright R. N. Taber 2005; 2010

[Note: This poem has been slightly revised from the original that appears in   A Feeling for the Quickness of Time by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books 2005.]