Fragments No. 4 “I Simply Refuse”

Gary Edward Geraci

It is true that if He doesn’t exist

Then - a mother weeping by the killing

Fields where her dead children lie now and feed

Worms - ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE FOR JUSTICE.

 

Neither will there be justice for the slaves, Or for those killed during the Holocaust,

Or in the genocides, or during the

atheistic communist regimes, or

 

In the abortion

Clinic. I simply

Refuse to live in

A hell hole like this.

 

Gary Edward Geraci

  • Author: Gary Edward Geraci (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 23rd, 2021 08:01
  • Comment from author about the poem: Fragment No. 4 - This one from my small green “Memoranda” notebook dated April 22, 2019.
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Comments3

  • orchidee

    A fine write Gary.

  • Doggerel Dave

    I 'd call that alienation, Gary. You accept things as they are, and place the responsibility for revenge (yes – revenge) on your Higher Authority.

    • Gary Edward Geraci

      Fair enough Dave but I believe the word used was Justice - (yes - JUSTICE - note the all caps - in religious writing- the sign of the Supreme of which nothing else can surpass). This feeling was expressed with poignancy by Dennis Prager of PragerU in a recent “Fireside Chat - A Dialogue About God and Ayn Rand” Episode 174 with Craig Biddle, one of the best of the best atheists making the rounds here today in America. Yes, from my Catholic perspective, I do do wholeheartedly believe justice will will be served in the afterlife. Even if ‘just a system or a crutch’ - it’s the one I’ve personally chosen to subscribe to given the lackluster and bleak alternatives (philosophies) that so readily abound, competing for adherents.

      • Doggerel Dave

        Well Gary, believe it or not, I did follow your reference and watched the whole interview – which I found very interesting, not least because of the dynamics: two people exchanging very different views in a tolerant, open way. In this topic area not so common.
        Only two issues I found a little problematic (ignoring God or no god?) was the thread of patriotism which ran through the conversation and the constant reference to Ann Rand, which, to anyone even only marginally to the left politically or with a humanist streak would find difficult.

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      • orchidee

        I thought this was about you refusing to hear me sing again! lol.



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