What If Poem by Eric Cockrell

what if Jesus and Magdalene
were lovers... and their
descendants were marching
for peace and equal rights
somewhere in the Mid-East?

and what if nuclear power
is a cancer... disguised as
progress... that sneaks up
on and devours the living?

what if money is a drug?
an addiction that cant be cured....
that drives a man to leave his
family, and all that he believes in,
to find a fix?

what if Aids and other new diseases
are just germ warfare... the tools
of the elite to weed out the poor?

what if the concept of 'God'
is a mask mankind wears to
hide from its own responsibilities....

what if holy wars are just murder,
and if liberation is just another
term for your new master!

what if poverty and ignorance
were the two greatest weapons
in the struggle for survival....

and finally, what if
666 is just the symbol
for the oil machine....

whom we worship by our actions
if not by our intent.......
'in God we trust'...
gasoline prices fell today!