Original Post posted to Authors Den on 8/22/2022

I've never seen a god or a goddess
only the hands of man woven through the fabrics of time
place and location always wielding their own needs upon all others
who must be complacent and manage their manipulations
in order that they might reign unchallenged by anyone
ordained by superior motives handed only to them
to decide for the masses what freedoms they can afford
while their mindsets cause the very brave of us to tremble
and to reject with sound judgment their overbearing demands
as they skirt their own advents, to keep ahead of fairness
by force not finesse as they point their fingers elsewhere
to declare their rights to condemn, no proof to be approved
no need ever to be questioned as they systematically grow
underneath the truth of the people who by and large
are content within themselves to live in public peacefulness
if only for their own sake of living out their lives as joyous as possible
without outside conflict from hidden agendas in powerful places
where the darker minds of men wallow in self indulgence
with no need for law or order for the prowess of their cunning
to continue to declare the minds of gods and goddesses
to which I have never met one.

Jade Jaspers