What if the Gods created the most beautiful planet
and filled it with valleys and mountains and trees
with wildflowers that bloom in Spring
with fishes, and birds and bees.
What if they added waterfalls…and ladybugs…an occasional butterfly
and sunrises and sunsets so colorful they kaleidoscope the sky.
And what if once they were finished the Gods were so elated
with the beauty and magnificence of the planet they created
they decided this beauty needed to be experienced to be felt…and thus
what if the Gods created people to enjoy it…what if the Gods created us.
What if the Gods hoped we’d not only appreciate the love and beauty that surround us
but spread that love and beauty to everyone and everything around us.
What if the Gods never dreamed anything bad would happen
What if the Gods were wrong…
What if the people tainted the beauty the Gods created
What if the people could not get along.
And what if now every time the Gods look down on us
every time they realize their mistake…
their tears fall as rain from the heavens
filling our oceans our rivers…our lakes.
What if the Gods created the most beautiful planet
with but one hope…that we’d enjoy it…
What if the Gods created the most beautiful planet…
and all we did…was destroy it.
I learned acceptance early in life as my household was a little odd
My father was German Jewish…my mother Irish Catholic…
which meant they prayed to different gods.
I was exposed to both religions and the more and more I grew
when I was asked…I never knew…if I was a Catholic…or a Jew?
Whenever someone sneezed next to me…I didn’t know what to do!
Should I say Gesundheit…or Shalom…or go with God bless you?
But being raised with this disparity was one of the beauties of my growth
for having two religions meant that I accepted both.
And when I went out into the world it made it easier to be
more accepting of all the other people who did not think like me.
I made friends with people whose Gods had different names,
different clothing, different hues…
whose Gods did not resemble at all the two Gods that I knew.
But having grown up with two Gods I found it easy to get along
for whose to say my Gods are right and all their Gods are wrong.
And though it’s made acceptance easier
as I’m able to see how each God pleases…
It has left me now more confused than ever…
when anybody sneezes.
I
Gods of Chaos,
I invoke thine
primal fire
Beasts of burden,
be mine;
be under my control
Loki, zeus, Set,
Tiamat, Hades,
Odin, Marduk,
Thoth,
Gods of Chaos,
warlords of hatred,
I invoke thine aid
Summon this rage,
summon this power,
help me to transmute all weakness
Turn my coal into gold;
turn my darkness into light,
Gods of Chaos
I am ready to ascend out of Tartarus
II
What they call "sin"
is really just freedom;
freedom of choice,
freedom to be
Master slavers,
taking what you earn,
parasites they hinder your progress
hiding the knowledge of within,
they cut you off from the source,
calling it "evil"
From the gods of chaos,
they keep you ignorant,
and in chains
Controlling your perception
of reality, you are crippled
in your possibility
To become god within,
you must realize god without
for both are the same.
When otters were born,
Mother earth smiled on them,
For she realized they were special indeed.
They had the warmth of a summer day
Hidden in their souls.
Because they were special, she gifted them
With speed.
She showed them to her brother,
The rain god.
He also realized they were special,
So he gifted them with
His love of water.
And that is how
They became
The otters we know today.