Rocks and Rivers with Innocently Envisaged Souls

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When you are raptured, try to think of earth

The way it was before religion came

To ruin it.  Imagine worlds of worth

And beauty long before religions’ shame,

When sunrise meant a sunrise, quite enough

Without religions’ baggage, sunrise, dawn

And daybreak as supernal things, no guff

Of guilt that brings the need of Christ upon

Us. Try to think of earth before the sin

Of fairytale divinity galumphed

Across our hearts and dirtied us within

And burdened us with priest and pope we’ve humphed.

  Before the shamans and the doped up dreams

    Of seers hypnotized, we worshiped streams.