They are all here
Birds of a feather
Peas in a pod
Chips off the old block
Homogeneous comrades
from parallel parties
All their great minds thinking alike
All smiling a smile
in an intense hum hum hum of agreement
that says
“We believe
and therefore we know”
Here in the great hall
there is a podium
and there is someone speaking
twenty four hours a day
These are the TRUE BELIEVERS
and you can ask
any one of them
and they will tell you
one man’s REALITY
is just another man’s
IDEOLOGY
Everyone spits
as they speak
and if you are too close
you can smell their breath
It is hot
and smells like something
died and lies close by
They have all the answers
to every question
already worked out
Every speaker
and each believer
has a tee-shirt
and a painted sign that says
TO HELL WITH THEM!
LET’S HEAR IT FOR US!
And they will tell you
with eyes ablaze that
We are the truth
the way and the light!
And you
well
you over there who don’t agree
you must be the devil!
I can tell by what you believe
you are one of those believers
and since I am telling the truth
and you well
everyone knows the devil is a liar
Just ask anyone
here
at the Believer’s Ball
And the Believers cheered
when they heard that what they believed
was believed by many of those
that were there believing with them
And they raised an army
of more believers like them
and these believers
who had the holy fire in their eyes
went over to the other side
that was full of believers not like them
and tried to wipe them out
because they said
you don’t believe like us
and your influence on normal men
is a moral plague
and filled with lies
because everyone knows
the devil is a liar
In the aftermath
at the celebration dance
when they were asked
why they burned those other believer’s
houses to the ground
they replied
We have no respect
for the devil’s house
And look, they said
here is the bottom line
This couldn’t have happened
without God’s approval
because in the end
as every true believer
already knows…
we believers
are God’s right hand
All night and into the day
the believers danced
their victory dance
at the exclusive
Believers Ball
and the air became
hot and humid and
smelled of burning hair
and brimstone
And the swirling blood
from their enemies
clung to their hands and
dripped down their shirts
stained their ties
and the black and white
tiles on the floor
and the fragrance of it
made them bold
and made them
raise up and chant
“Hail the true believers!
Hail the true believers!”
over and over
again and again
echoing long
into the smoke filled night