Being religious

has nothing to do with the world

The world minds itself

and its wars, quakes and lack-love

The god of the religious

does not reside in the world;

has nothing to do with it

The dilemma that religious people face

is that they're nothing but the world

Their thoughts of a god is also the world

We well remember

how Galileo Galilei was jailed

and exiled by the religious

because he understood

that the Earth was not the centre

of the solar system

We remember

how Giordano Bruno was burned

at the stake by the religious

because he maintained

that the universe was endless

and populated by intelligent beings

We remember

how the religious

burned women they called witches

at the stake

The difficulties of the god-creepers

of today

reside in the same environment,

like crouching dead insects

Yes, the religious paint the invisibility

of their god

across the wars, quakes and lack-love

of the world

We tear the invisibility of the god

out of their minds

and step on it

The religious are security risks

We burn the absence of their god

in the relentlessness of perspicacity,

and the world smiles

out of the sheets on clothes lines

and the asphalt roads rained clean

far and near