Mesopotamia Poem by Willem VanVoorthuysen

Since God threw Adam and Eve
out of His Paradise Garden,
for heeding Satan's sly advice,
that blessed land became
in many ways, a barren desert
and worse, a moral wilderness,
in which The Ten Commandments
are broken, night and day, hence
how can God-fearing people refuse
to try and end the bloodshed and
the abuse inflicted by dictators
on innocent people in a land,
once the original Paradise?
Should we pull out, give up,
like Pontius Pilate, and go home,
forget, or simply look away,
as some suggest, or fight to bar
return of wholesale genocide?


(10/24/2006)