Common Ground

They attack us
we attack them,
in a cycle of retribution
here we go again.

A holy war in the name of God
I don’t want to hear it,
a twisted misguided philosophy
the whole world has come to fear it.

The God we know says, “Love each other”
do not fight and kill,
we cannot slay our neighbor
and claim it is his will.

But the Muslim Koran does condone
the slaughter of innocents,
those who do so in his name
are a frightening development.

This rabid form of hatred
is approaching lunacy,
its escalation out of control
has long since frightened me.

Civilization could come apart
before we find common ground,
in the name of all that’s holy
somewhere it must be found.


by Robert Quinn
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