c.2004 M. Bennett Hooper

I am confused by a society which pays preachers more than they do teachers. Especially when preachers are supposed to be about charitable pursuits.

I am confused by artists who sing and speak of love while killing babies because they are inconveninet. Especially when abortion is not contraception and eradication of ones species is not considered genocied, homicide, or suicide.

I am confused by powerful men who wage wars for peace. Especially when the peace they profess to seek is really a piece of someone else's pie, sky or reason why.

I am confused by women who claim they are searching for a loving tender supportive and strong man as they hang around the garbage cans of life fighting each other for crumbs of humanity. Especially when what they seek is usually within arms reach when they stop searching and start becoming feminine royalty.

I am confused by men who are more interested in appearances rather than character and purpose as they choose discardable women. Especially when they call them gold diggers while plying them with meaningless baubles to parade before the masses as they proclaim ownership and status as the latest slave masters.

I am confused by a society whose food supply is so tainted that cows go mad and chickens are eaten within three weeks of their birth and growth hormones in the feed of livestock is commonplace. Especially when the media is used to warn us of new antibiotic resistant strains of new diseases whcih kill us daily.

I am confused by controlled media conglomerates which direct the masses in goose stepping marches towards a nihilistic reality. Especially when voluntary ignorance is already the highest common denominator.

I am confused by my inability to stop writing when it does not guarantee my personal immortality. Especially when I proclaim that mine is a true spiritual quest.

I am confused because perhaps confusion and shouting at the deaf is my comfort zone.