Angelic furie tryst: third position

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I note I see you sadly sitting
looking over and up at me;
leaving me to wonder
What it is you think you see...
Do you see an ethereal being
Made out of just pure light?
Or a creature made from darkness
out of that deep leathered night?
Perhaps you want to understand
The wondrous universe and all its ways?
Or maybe you want to change,
This into another person’s stage?
You see my glorious wings,
and wonder if I truly fly?
Perhaps you deeply wonder
if spirits ever -really- die?
You see my masked smile
and think at what secrets here reveal
Or perhaps whether God
ever really wants to truly heal?
Now let me tell you what you
really do not want to hear;
Please give me some time to
inform you of those secrets
that we hold so dear.
There is only one reason
As to why we cause you pain,
There is only one truth
Its simple and its plain.
You see, we don't want you here,
we hope you can understand,
That you're a mere mortal being,
With your own universe to command.

I wonder why you think that's odd?
Yes,I can really read your mind,
can't you tell that we are neither
obscenely cruel or unpleasantly kind?
the truth is the space you know is vast,
Filled with a thousand, billion stars;
But when you die you have to face
A smaller universe by far.
that's why we like to see you stumble
That's why we push and see you fall,
And why we don't want you to change
or be anything other than whom you are.
We want you blinded by vague beliefs,
with chains that keep you strained.
We want to stop you from moving on
To become that visionary strain;
Oh how we laugh at your silly songs,
That you sing in closed rooms all day long;
As we are constantly inwardly reinforcing
Those issues of race and sex and state
and laugh our bloody wings right off
As you fight with intolerance and hate.
We want you to blindly accept Dawkins
And wander with dear our old Percy Shelly,
Or keep your faces ever inward stuck on the Telly.
We love it when you become evangelical,
Or accept the purple purchase papal;
And we are happy that you think
that there is -or is no- purpose.
and that life is bitterness and fateful.
It fills and fuels our constant joy
To see you sitting in the gloom
and feel your arse get hard
in a stone cold empty room,
As you slowly get close to sleep
while your preachers vacuous voice
Goes boom, boom, fucking boom.
For this reinforces your empty point of view,
That there is no light,
there is no love
There is no ringing of a wedding bell
And all there is,
In this empty wrath filled fucking hell.
We want this for a very simple reason
because we are afraid of what you’ll do,
For we know just what a drop of faith
with sincerity can truly lead to.

For if you find faith,
you’ll change the world you see
And that be for all eternity.
You’ll move the mountains,
from the earth into the stars,
You’ll shape you’re inner life,
and deny us who we really are.
You’ll heal the broken hearted,
you’ll mend the empty vessels,
You’ll turn the world here
and make it so very special.
For the world you view,
is not all that you see.
And what you dream inside,
is greater than us three.
You shape your whole existence
with every thought you share
You lift yourself beyond,
what you fear to dare.
And with every step of faith
you make before me.
You free inner self
from the perception of your reality.
now, why am I telling you
this perceptive “point of view?”
Well,why..? do you think
that I would ever lie to you?
do you think
or do you doubt
that I am telling you a truth..?
You’ll never know…
You’ll never guess…
And that, for us that's fine…
no... that is success.

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alphadog1 | March 19, 2012 - 19:05

This piece might cause some anger, but I would open prefer debate than outright hostility.
Recently the human position in relating to questions on faith has been to quote a recently resigned Archbishop of Canterbury:"reinforced by idiots". I have to say that this position(Both his terminology and the terminology from the opposition) has caused a great deal of emotional concern for me.
Simply put, faith is not about religion; it might encompass the religious tradition. Yet faith isn't something that can quantified solely by religion. This is due to the fact that even atheists believe... they sincerely believe in the non existence of, or acceptance in, a supernaturally divine loving creator.This is not to criticise, those who are atheists... but I expect that those who are will criticise my position...
But heart of the matter is this:
Faith, as a concept, has to be sincere for it to function. So its not faith on its own that works. its sincere faith in the individuals belief that makes faith work. What is fascinating is how faith has been linked to acts of humanity and compassion. Simply because it shouldn't be. in fact why should it be? what is stopping the Atheist, or a God hater, from an act of selflessness? nothing that I can see. Other than perhaps they cannot see how an act of selflessness would be beneficial to them... But this isn't really a fair argument. For sports individuals after all, engage with acts of selflessness all the time, for selfish means... and that is the pattern that has fascinated me.
then there is the position of trying to understand as to why religion as a concept exists at all. There has to be reason for it. It gives something to certain people, that other people find hard to understand and seem to hate them for it, even though those people who do have a positive position on faith are prepared to share their ideas with anyone who wants to listen.
But religion is still a man made concept. its man's way of making a box for something that does not want to be boxed up. Christianity is the best example of this, as it came from a position of dissent from within the Judaic religious tradition, using the prophesies within the Judaic tradition to give birth to it. Then dissented from itself in a spiral that takes place every time a religious tradition is made out of it.
The Christian concept of God and the Angelic realm attached to it is deeply connected to this peice. Because this concept has shaped our European religious structure for thousands of years...the idea of the angel being both a messenger and a weapon of divine power on both sides of the Angelic/human human/angelic divide has made this piece deeply complex.... leading to deeper and deeper questions both relating to their existence and their purpose. What I also find upsetting is that as individuals daemons are easier to believe in than Angels... this poem suggests that there are no differences between them; and the one thing that they wish to achieve is in the prevention of free will and faith working together... It is a genuine tragedy for me that religions have never considered this position. Because if they did, we would have an enemy to fight against, that, once faced down, can be defeated.

as always this is a first draft and will need altering and shaping.
the iambic is there, and is based upon the Sinead O'conner template used in her song "queen of Denmark"... I can't help that, because the song is in my head. so sorry for that.