ONION

ONION

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

As an Atheist would ask

please do not pray for me

for your indulgence

is in what you believe to be

the Worlds affirmations.

In these seeds in which you plant

no matter

how much you believe it to be true

someone will walk away

from you and nod their head.

This is the way of mankind.

This is the way for people with choice.

What is dark to you

is not to another

for the void

is filled so many questions to ask.

Procuring

a student or a blessed one

cannot be raked

from the ground like leaves

or tossed

into a bowl like a salad

for your makings

will become chef bound.

As an atheist

who I have turned away from

I understand the whipping

and the beating

we take from those that profess the Light.

While I move

to the whispers of God

I have been asked

to become silent and listen.

I have

been listening to these whispers

and since a child

I was asked to ignore them.

Now

I have come full circle

bringing the powerful voice

of our eyes and ears

to the stage of mankinds view.

If I

have become the Pandora’s box

and have released

into the air a disturbance

then by these measures

seek why

these waves

of untold and unmeasured Spirits

sink into your third eye.

The World

becomes designed by truths

and what people believe.

I shall be the nail

that will bury the misfortunes

for some

of these Truths stain

and the cloth of God shall be unstained.

If the pagan

seeks an idol – so be it.

If the New Age

disbars my delusional behavior- so be it.

The Truth of God

is in the plight

of our dreamscape opinions, and

like an onion we shall cry.

Like an onion- we shall consume ourselves.