There Was A Time

There was a time,
Fear of hell
And lust for heaven
Was paramount.
It made reasonable people
Do unspeakable things
Tortured Interrogations
Sanctified Human Sacrifice
Holy Invasions and Wars
Dogmatic Ethnic Slaughter
God Led Genocide
There was a time.

There was a time
For most,
That time has dissolved
In a barrage of
Trivialisation.
We belittle both
Heaven and hell.
It has become
A jibe, a joke
Neither destination
To be taken seriously
As an end of life
Result
There was a time.


There was a time
Now only for the
chosen few
a soft toy, horny Devil
for Valentines Day
A new Ice cream
Tastes heavenly
Saturday morning TV
Food heaven or food hell
Heaven and hell reduced to
A light hearted recipe phone in
But: There was a time