Mental Health Writings: Another Original Poetic Contribution of Mine to the Discussion of "Spirituality"

 

SO WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?

by

George Fish

 

It is Torquemada;

and it is

Catholic priest-pedophilia,

and its even more foul

and disgusting

deliberate cover-up.

It is the idiotic and senile

Pat Robertson

spewing his vile,

vitriolic drivel

over the TV airwaves.

It is persecuting Galileo

and burning Giordano

Bruno at the stake

for teaching as supposed

heresy that which

modern science now affirms,

and affirms with deep conviction.

It is burning alleged witches

alive, along with supposed

heretics and homosexuals.

It is what Enda Kenney,

Prime Minister of

overwhelmingly Catholic

Ireland, sick and tired

of Vatican obstruction,

called out as the

Catholic Church’s

culture of “disconnect,

dysfunction, narcissism

and elitism.”

It is constantly haranguing

people about abortion,

birth control, and the mores

of allegedly “proper and

improper” sexual intimacy

in sharing love with those

whom they specially care about,

regardless of sexual orientation.

It is being constant genital police,

a special inquisitorial office

reserved notably

for celibate old males.

It is all these, and more—

or less, as it is

so profoundly

anti-human,

inhumane,

and just plain abusive.