In the Name of

What possesses a man
to kill in the name of a god?
If there exists a higher power,
shouldn’t this request seem odd?
Certainly there are safer ways
to prove one’s love and laud,
or is all this pain and suffering
just hatred hiding behind religion’s facade?

© Autumn Siders 2017

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