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Today's Attitude:
[Poetic]


Beware of the Amoralist

By Robert A. Haaser – Original, June 7, 2002
Robert A. Haaser – Last Modified, March 28, 2004
[Free verse - no meter - Needs Work :( ]

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Keep an open mind.
I mean not to offend,
Only to warn of unseen danger
In the hearts and minds of men.

Make friends wisely and do not be shallow.
Befriend your Muslim and Christian neighbors.
Do not demean your Catholic or Baptist brethren.
Pat your vegetarian and yoga friends on the back.
Trade good will with the Hebrews and ethical atheists two doors down.
Encourage your Agnostic University friends to explore new horizons.

Invite into your home the ethical people,
Those of all ethnic backgrounds with an infinity of beliefs
Who are dedicated to reason, happiness and cooperation,
To the visiting Mormon or Jehovah’s witness evangelists,
Offer a porch rest and a cool drink.

However, beware of those who live as wolves in sheep’s skin.
For, true danger lies beneath outward ethnicities.
There are most certainly things far more dangerous in this world
Than minor religious and ideological differences.
True Devils lurk in the shadows of the ranks and masses
of every religion and political organization in the world.
These devils of every age are the worst kind of being in existence.

Such are the amoralists.
They take pleasure for themselves from everyone and anything they can.
Of all the ethnicities I have known,
I have met just as many such devils in each.
When amoralists gain power, and they often do,
they sift dark and damnable attributes
To the forefront of their followers’ minds: [And they don’t even realize it]

They thrive on fear and step on those who struggle.
They speak with unwarranted alarmist words for their own control and gain.
They declare manipulated, consistent facts to be truth without due process
And often manipulate statistics in support of their unethical goals.
They declare that good results justify any means to achieve them.
They discourage cooperation and participation with other groups and ethnicities.
They declare themselves and their group far more righteous
Than any other in the entire history of the world.

They attempt to punish those who do better than them.
They always pass the buck.
They rage on non-crowded roads when drivers don’t move out of their way.
They always want more power.

They thrive on war.
They live for the suffering of others.
They want only to gain wealth
Or heavenly rewards, at someone else’s expense.

If the devil, itself, is to truly come at all,
Then it will most certainly come
from within each and every church, mosque and temple
from the best and worst governments at the same time,
from the wealthy, middle class and the poor,
from old, middle aged and young individuals,
from intellectuals, religious people, and the uninformed
oozing through the unseen cracks of each
in the fabric of civilization, religion, intellectualism and freedom.

So, keep an open mind.
I mean not to offend,
Only to warn of unseen danger
Lurking in the hearts and minds of men,

And Beware of the Amoralist
or you will be his slave.
You will not own your soul
Nor control the destruction you help bring
To the innocent and good of an unwitting world.