The Latest Scribblings of Aka Manah From The Hottest Vacation Spots (continued)

It’s getting much too easy these days.

In fact, we no longer need to possess.

We simply throw the bait into the wind.

Watch them scurry about, grab and caress.

They always love the shiney things.

or the latest ‘best thing ever.’

With many, it’s never something of substance

but with most, it bothers almost never.

The seed’s been planted long ago

The day the first took the ill-advised path.

Now we use their own free will against them,

rarely having to feel His wrath.

“You need this to feel you’re worth a damn,”

we tell them all and they run to buy.

Some we wait for patiently then whisper,

“You’ve prayed long enough. Give this new religion a try.”

We sit back at times, let them destroy themselves

because, of course, we take donations as well.

Finding it harder and harder to believe in anything

makes them not care who they let lead them to hell.

Their worlds collide, divide from disagreements

on the beautiful differences in His gift.

Self-serving acts for rewards, pointless victories

does not make what makes spirits lift.

And now to see so many mislead by one

sends the power we've longed through time.

That he can do much more than Master

exposing man's most hidden crime.

The wars will always come and go.

The acts of gods, always few and far between.

Man left to his own devices seems the answer

to most problems my friends and I have seen.

So here I lounge in your future swelter

dressed down, feet up and drink in hand

watching welcomings on big screens, followers

of the latest ones, the Pied Pipers of your land.

~End

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Originally written for the Challenge of the Week CXXIX (though submitted too late): "Angels and Demons. Choose one, and write from their perspective, or about them."

Aka Manah is referred to as the demon of the evil mind (bad thoughts and intentions). His purpose: to keep people from fulfilling their moral duties.