Trouble in Paradise

Two brothers long ago
The tribes of modern man
From Genesis to Abraham
From Gabriel, I am

The path to enlightenment
Is anything but clear
A renaissance of light
Against a blanket of night

Those caped crusaders
The tin machine
200 years of angst
A knightly war for a holy land
Draw a line in the sand

Charades, crusades
And sticks and stones
A sty in the mind's eye
They demonize with demon eyes
There's trouble brewing in paradise

800 years have come and gone
Welcome to our
Post-modernistic
Secular humanistic
Hedonistic
Capitalistic
Society

Those cartoon capers
Not the funny papers
Reveal the great divide

No burden of proof
Despite the truth
The zealots lost their heads

Charades, crusades
And sticks and stones
A sty in the mind's eye
They demonize with demon eyes
There's trouble brewing in paradise

Copyright ©2006 T. Atkinson