Piety Poem by Deluke Muwanigwa

Piety

Every twinkling star a sun like ours
Burning light for millions of hours
Trillions of sparkling diamonds
Some shaped like almonds
To every star are worlds, some cold
Some made seconds ago, some old
Others temperate and hot
Some habitable, some not
Earth miniscule
Belief in a fiat
Religion a ridicule
Piety.
Religion is war
Each claiming to be IT,
causing intolerance the more,
not accomodating a bit.
Science says we are the same,
but religion has a chosen race,
calling messiahs by name,
even conjuring up a face.
We must foster human friendship,
spend time and money on science, building spaceship,
instead of suffering the mind games in silence.