The Guns of Belief

        THE GUNS OF BELIEF

                                        And

                            THE PRAGMATIST

A HOPE is felt in the mind of the Observer

 Yet, the corners of the Observers mouth turn down in pain…

As Bullets of Anger travel through the air

                                             from a Premise of Believed-Truth.

Bullets of Belief tear into a victim’s body

     from the Gun of Truth-Presumed,

And, if the victim too possesses  

     weapons of Believed-Truths,

 then another’s blood will be splattered on the walls of these lives.

The turning down of the Observer’s mouth to sadness

     as the anticipation of those Bullets of Belief tearing into the flesh of feelings.    

                                and then the Pragmatist…….. understanding,

     that the rooms in their lives would be covered with the stains of

      psychological blood.

That briefly felt HOPE of this Pragmatist… was “the recognition

                                            in the understanding…

     that these Bullets of Anger from the Guns of Belief”

                                            Should not…..be our practice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Advent ,  2005