I Would Like To Believe

I Would Like To Believe I would like to believe that religions promote love I would like to believe that their mantra is caring Yet all that I hear as the voices ascend Is hateful and without forbearing I would like to believe there is love in this world Not for gods but a love for each other We need not share lineage nor even our blood To feel each to the other as brother Yet down thru the centuries rivers of blood Have been shed in the name of some god Intolerance rampantly lifted it's hand Mercilessly beating many to sod What hope have we then when repetitive hate Instead of repetitive love... Raises it's scepter to maim and to kill And no god intercedes from above I would like to believe when we wake from this hell When our bodies and souls are forlorn That each moment be filled with nothing but love That mans evil will fade with new dawn. Corrine Schlessel @ 2014 July 26