The Elusive God Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

The Elusive God

in your name,
they fight for the apparent God.

neither an apparition nor a visage on the sky

or a lucid voice heard from midnight whisper,
or an imperial image riding on a flying pegasus,
or rising on a sky chariot,

the constant dilemmas and contentions forthe followers,

blocked swords with shields,
knives with heavy armors,

At times a declared temporary truce,
but came back again with more bullets and bombs,

more violent, more vehement and as relentless as before, ,

The suicide bombers and civilian casualties,
the terrorists and the victims,

the loud explosions from the bomb vests,
on marketplaces, busy street corners,

the flying drones inflicting large casualties on the enemy,

in Irag, in Syria, Afghanistan and the Middle east,
the downtown streets of Los Angeles.
Paris and London,

Their armies and soldiers locked in battles,
any tenements of the opposing forces, the followers,
brothers against brothers,
religion against religion

From the time of the Crusaders to the Fall of Constantinople
The Fall of Bagdad and the Dissolutions of the Isis
a clash of the civilizations for the dumb and the elusive God