Tuesday, January 27, 2015

A LOAD OF PAPAL BULL! (weekly poem)

A LOAD OF PAPAL BULL!

Following the Charlie Hebdo shootings, The Pope said
it’s wrong to retaliate to insults with violence but then
said he would punch anyone who insulted his Mother

The Pope says he’ll thump anyone,
Who’s rude to his old Ma;
But claims retaliation’s wrong,  
In edicts to his docile throng,
With logic quite bizarre.
Such a conception, rationally,
Is far from adequate,
And being faulty, can’t be said,
(Unless one’s empty in the head)
To be immaculate!

Not for His Holiness the need,
To turn the other cheek;
That’s for the one of virgin birth,
And those inheriting the Earth,
The (multi-moneyed) meek.
It must be clear to all those with, 
A non-judgemental mind;
Those who refuse to moralise,
Can see with their wide-open eyes,
The Holy See is blind.

Especially on their legacy,
Of priestly child-abuse;
In trying to sell folk a pup,
The crimes they tried to cover up,
In due course cooked their goose.
The Vatican to fool its flock,
Engulfs their eyes with wool; 
Then in Christ-like humility,
Claims its infallibility,
With loads of Papal Bull!
                                                           
© Richard Layton

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