Up Yours

Did you know against God's first law
It was a phallus
The Hebrews stuck
In the very center of Yahweh's temple
When they abandoned Him
Before Nebuchaneezaar came
And swept them away?
Is there any wonder
They needed reformation?

How long after Moses received the Law
That no man should commit adultery
Did Solomon, the Hebrew’s King of Kings,
Gather a 1000 women to his bed?
Is it any wonder that God should look away?

For we are drawn to the earthly,
In denying Heaven,
Searching for the animal in us
The lost and the faithless
Seek their excitement and their joy
In the throbbing upright symbol
Of power and fertility and dominance

And so we are led away into a captivity
Of our own making and choosing.
Until the sensation of the Night collapses
And the morning dawns hard and cruel
In chains.