(content) Killing God

[billy]

Of course there are those who complain about God.
Sitting on his throne of faith, his faith or ours?
his castles built with devotion, nice image for churches.
Stockholm syndrome's spirit strain, strain doesn't work too well for me as the syndrome is more of a calming
he watches like a movie-goer great line and image
each atrocity. This poem was cliché from 'this' to 'its conception.' feels weak for me, is it needed?
from its conception. I've seen it told so many ways,
Anne Sexton bemoaning the Jew's holocaust, jews feel redundant
Graham Greene turning a young socialite
into a martyr in The End of the Affair.
What more can I say? I give you images instead,
brutality for arguments. Strike God down,
rip out his spleen, paint HATE on the cosmos
with his intestines. Slice his genitals in twain
and see the seed which bore his son
rot among the dying stars. Feast on his organs,
spread over our plains, his heart attracting flies
in an African town where bony orphans dine for days.
This is my vision, a God torn apart,
not discussed but ripped open.

wow, for all my feedback i like it. it's a definitive rant. and it starts from the belittling believers in the 1st 4 lines. it builds into a hate rant as it proceeds. i like the use of other poets. for me with a small edit you have a good publishable poem. i like the title because it's evocative, the following poem lived up to it.

thanks for the read.