Some Little Thoughts

When man first learned to think
(As opposed to relying on instinct),
He sought a meaning to his very nature,
Wondering, whether or not there was a creator.
From man: The hunter; the progenitor;
He became man: The toolmaker; the speculator.
And this separated him from other animal population
Since other life-forms failed in permanent formulation,
Thinking only of the way over the nearest hill
And which animal was the slowest, ready for it to kill. 

At first, idols were the thought the source of man: Idolatry.
(Only to be quickly followed by the worship of the sun: Heliolatry).
Idols went by many names, and the earliest priests celebrated
The birth of their gods, all of which have now been relegated
To books on ancient religious history,
Their passing into ages gone, being a blistery
Account of man's perceived ignorance, on pages wherein
Names began, with the birth of Aton, Ra, and Elohim.
In days, when not to believe in an accepted social god was a reason,
Like the alpha wolf, not to allow man to spread his seed outside his allotted position or season. 

But, as time followed time, and man grew, and matured,
(Assuming that today is not a lie of history, one to be endured)
So the idol was replaced by the omnipotent god-thought,
Which was to satisfy, forever, man's longing for what he sought
In this life and the next. He grew in time to know
That he never could determine which way the winds of death would blow.
Of death, nothing is sure, save it is life's end,
And all the prayers to idols did not appear to bend
Nature's resolve: To see the body rot and decay
No matter what a priest may do, while chanting incantations, day, after day, after day. 

And so, to live without fear, beside the fires of life
(Living, that is, without fear of man's eternal strife),
Books were penned to record the word of Him,
The highest, the only Judge to determine man's propensity to sin.
What was good? The rights? The wrongs?
Recite from the Holy Book: The Song of Songs.
Which became the very source of man's ability
To survive throughout the aeons of insensibility
When men of power and might
Decided, willy-nilly, what was wrong and what was right. 

The first monotheist was said to be Ahkenaton, husband of Nefertiti,
(Some say he was a sufferer of petit mal -- epilepsy).
He conceived of the idea that there was one invisible
God whose essence was good, jealous and irascible, but never indivisible.
Though not quite certain, Moses was thought to be
The son of Ahkenaton, who set the Jews of Egypt free
To roam Sinai in search of the land, where parsimony
Did not exist; and, where man may live in mutual harmony
With each, one to another; and worship Adonai Echod:
The only true, the One, the Hebrew God. 

And the world put aside idolatry and Heliolatry in favour of a God, immutable
(Whose power was said to be the greatest -- indisputable).
For those who thought that life was simply the condition
Of praying in the accepted mosque, stupa or synagogue, in the supine position,
Discovered the overwhelming force of Him, who saw his temples sprout, full-blown,
From country to country, from England to Thebes, from Palestine to Rome.
Though schisms, pockmarked the One-God rise to glory,
And it is written that the history of conversion was a very bloody story,
Because Crusaders converted non-believers, by argument, by prayer, and then by the sword,
Pagan civilisations learnt they could not hold back this mighty religious hoard. 

It is true to say that, from the birth of monotheism, then Christ, man's saviour,
(By Jesus' wit and his supremely, exemplary behaviour)
Life on earth improved, as man learned the lessons of love and toleration:
Of those, whose skin colour was deemed not white, but of a different colouration.
He learned that to forgive is not to be considered a weakness,
And that love is often personified in him who enjoys the gift of meekness;
He learned that, on this earth, different men think differently, which still may be a cohesive force,
And that, on this earth, these differences may be complementary, not necessarily a divisive course;
And what was realised, far and wide, was that regardless of a man's skin colour, or his eyes of a different hue,
He was part of the family of One-God, which held all men together -- a binding, loving, lasting glue.