Flaming Passions

The Patriarchy will Be Over                                            

Prayer Meeting on the Golf Course,
For New Freshmen, Asbury College, 1965
(Sketch, 2/3/2018 at 5 am)

                                                                                  

When I see

The nuns throwing off their habits

The Priests breaking crosiers over their knees

The Imam forced from the pulpit

Women ripping off veils, and headscarves

Women storming the pulpits

And pulling evangelists from their accusatory thrones

Beating their bibles into the story books they are

The tales the tales so grimly told

And preachers with tails between their legs

Kings uncrowned

And dictators laughed off stage

Politicians listening to all people

Joining their humanity

Schooling together

Teaching the history of progress

Not of killing and wars

No joy in found in killing

The stranger we do not know

But knowing the stranger

So we are no more

living

in the victory of kindness

Soldiers throw down their guns

And refuse to kill

The fearful unafraid

Weapons melted into plows

Trombones and trumpets

The planes employed for cargoes of good

And the view the splendor of the earth we love

And care for

And each person

Happy to be who they are

The color they are

The background they have

But one, one, one

Holding hands, and laughing

Singing Freedom, freedom, free   

You, whoever you are,

And me  

Holiday Wishes 2017, Ground Hog Day 2018

©James M. Frase-White 2018