Harmless, by Brian37 (Now Jackie Leigh) (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Unfettered, unchained, unchecked
The rabid dog froths at the prospect
Of absolute power, the structure of
Which built on the on the foundation

The foundation of ancient stories
Legends of impossible feats, clever
In it’s disguise of morality, certainly
It is harmless?

Yesterday is forgotten, lax is education
They don’t teach the times where reading
Was a crime, when obeying the deity
Was obligatory, an obsession mandated

By the church. Over the wall it will lurch
Breaching like a tsunami, obliterating
The Age Of Reason, giving way to treason
Winter has become the season

Followed by oppression, dead is free expression
Dissent is now suppression, pulpit politics
Are the fat bloated ticks, of conformity
Feasting on the gullibility of sycophants

Harmless religion can never be
Written in the blood of history
They will use it as weapon
To bludgeon and beat you with

Submission, submission, submission
Contrition, contrition, contrition
Fruition, fruition, fruition
Death of the Constitution

Harmless? Such words are not said
Of the rival gangs, that have different names
With the same zealots, defending, defending
Old mythology

A club of angry gods that have guns
And tanks, and bombs, with names
Names like Jesus, Allah, Yahweh
And the sane, see this, and know

It has never been harmless,

I don’t take pleasure
In writing these prose
These words of the obvious
The blind cannot see

Pluralism demands, empathy demands
And rightfully so, that belief in a higher power
Must be protected as part of the market
The market of ideas

But it must never be unfettered
Unchained or unchecked
Never to replace common law
I plead in this fragile moment

To uphold Jefferson’s Wall!
We know what Project 2025 will do
Just like the Imams of Iran
The goal is for democracy to fall.