The Secret Of Progress Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

By Freeyad Ibrahim


Religion lives on the tragedies of peoples,
You may say
Once the tragedies end, the religion ends!
in this or in that way
The eastern people are strict in religion
This is the only coin they can pay
because of the injustice of those in power,
they feel the palling and daily dismay
So, whoever gets no response to his request
from an earthly authority, goes to pray
raises his hands to the cosmic authority
He sends warm sighs of frustration,
despite the unfairness,
he has got nothing else to do, or to say,
but nodding and saying: well, OKAY

The secret of the progress of the Christian West
All the same, we are all made, as they say, from clay:
The secret is that the philosophers have eliminated
the Clergymen who were like rotten teeth
full of cavities and full of decay.

And the secret of the backwardness of the East
is that the clergymen, on the contrary, have eliminated
the philosophers who had shown the way
to those who had gone astray.

That is why the folks, too strict in religion,
are still sleeping, night and day.

That's is the difference, the secrete
as I see, by the way.

In a Democratic state you are free to do, to say
While the Dictatorship urges you to pray! !



Fryad Hugo
Netherlands
November,2002