Please read from the viewpoint of:

A Sioux Indian
A Palestinian Refugee
An American Citizen
Any other nationality, ethnic, or religious
group

Let Us Prey
We are territorial and predatory, we know no
other way.
So when we are invaded, we pause to say, "Let
us pray."

Our god is our consoler, to calm us in our
plight.
Our god is our protector, to steel us in our
fight.

We guard our god and homeland with zeal and
might.
With memories from long ago death and terror
in the night.

When they invaded us and took away our stand.
And made us pray to their god in a foreign
land.

We know that we are right, because god is on
our side.
And they are godless heathen, cruel and unfit
to abide.

On land god's given us to honor and protect.
We stand united and proudly circumspect.

The [animal or bird] is our symbol, and it
is by no mistake.
That when we swoop to prey, and their lives
to take.

Our god is on our side even in death's
wake.
When innocent die in god's name, we will pray
for their sake.

It's all just territorial and always just the
same.
When will we stop preying in god's name?

Copyright 2001 © Ronald W. Hull

9/15/01

The United States of America is governed under reasoned thought of its citizens, not the unreasoning religious passion for an unknown god.