the blind leading the blind leading the blind

the blind
leading the blind
leading the blind

dead contract
chosen people no more
promised land no more
cast out
for rejecting one prophet
too many

*****

five centuries
attempting to have life
in a dead contract

then
one last merciful chance
a prophet warning them

and the promised messiah

but yet still
proud and resentful
rejecting
this last merciful chance
the unchosen people
cast out once again
from
the unpromised land

*****

you are just people
like the rest of us

if not regarding you as
special chosen people
is hateful
what are we to you?

your contract died
twenty-five centuries ago

sad and true

welcome to humanity

and stop killing
the children of Abraham

the Master is patient
not stupid

*****

the blind
leading the blind
leading the blind

the precipice
awaits

on that day
the Master
will ask the Pit of Doom
if it is filled to the full
and the Pit of Doom
will ask for more

the precipice
awaits

the blind
leading the blind
leading the blind

*****

the blind
leading the blind
leading the blind

a new covenant
a contract with
a new Israel

led by a false prophet
who kicked the messiah
upstairs
to godhood

and led his followers
astray

he who led them astray
is a saint to them

causing
twenty centuries
of medieval confusion
and suffering

flesh as god
flesh as god
flesh as god

crazy math
war against reason
don’t question
images

images

images
as if the tireless creator of
the entire vastness of the cosmos
is a man of stinky flesh
and funk

funking an earthly maiden
(a betroth-ed earthly maiden)
to save the world

save the world from what?

do you even know
what you believe?

the one who led you astray
is a saint to you

even as
following him leads you into
a pit of confusion

crime top-to-bottom
criminal pulpits criminal boards-of-directors criminal
judges criminal prosecutors criminal cops criminal
congressmen criminal senators criminal president
criminal
penniless children

millions homeless millions addicted
your-money-or-your-life imitation healthcare criminal
corporations selling us criminal imitation food

in an imitation christian society

in an imitation christian society
that accepts no responsibility for the
mess
it creates

save the world from what?

the one who led you astray
is a saint to you

come off it

your world needs to be saved

from

him

*****

the blind
leading the blind
leading the blind

the final prophet
dressed like any man
which he was
as he said
an ordinary man

allowing no deference
to himself
and took no offense
at being called
by his name

he delivered the message
he was chosen to deliver
and returned to his Maker

what went wrong?

twenty-nine years
after his passing
his mission was usurped
co-opted in a coup

leading millions who
barely knew the message
to believe that their mission
was to conquer the world

fourteen centuries later
desperate for salvation from
madness and confusion
i read the message
in its original language

the earth split open and
i was on one side of a
jagged crack in the ground
and all those holy and righteous
others
were on the other side

they claim to follow a message
they don’t even read

they follow blind leaders
following blind leaders
following blind leaders

fourteen centuries of
bearded be-robed men
in strange and fancy head-gear
some with kissy-kiss-me rings
be-titled and enthroned in
imitation pagan temples
like the imitation christian
imitation pagan temples

they are blind leaders
following blind leaders
following blind leaders

following the usurping
co-optating schemers
who took over the
mission of the messenger

instead of delivering the message
they tried to conquer the world

but the Master is not stupid

in His plan
the world conquered
them

now you upset

violent upset

come off it

*****

open your eyes
and read the message
in its original language

the Master has
saved it for you

read it and share it
this world needs it

this world does not need you
to be a part of it

you do not need
to be part of this world

the ancient prophet led his people
out of pharaoh’s land
not into it

not physical location

mindset

where is your heart?

dead hearts
are the leading cause of
blindness

the blindness of
the blind following
the blind following
the blind

open your eyes
and read the message
the Master sent you

so that you can see
as the seers
joseph and moses and jonah
delivered entire nations
from the pit of confusion

be the seer
who gives sight to the blind

open your hearts to the message
in its original language
and your eyes will see

2 Jumaadaa-al-Aakhirah 1440
February 7, 2019