Force will never succeed
where conversion is concerned.

Of course,
you will win converts -
should you choose to crucify,
decapitate, fire or drown the mortally resistant -
mumblers and knee-benders,
seemingly enthused new-costume-wearers
who will shrug and morality-play-along
or those who know which side their wafer, bagel, unleavened
bread is buttered on,
those whorish camp followers of
the winning army
but you will not have conversion.

Were that possible
would any of the currently predominant
world religions
have ever crawled past infancy,
I seriously doubt it.

As for those who cite the bygone
for whatever reason, past:
transgressions, annexations, outrages,
heritages, presages, mangling of messages,
forebears, books of prayers, doctrinaires,
who really cares?

The creator does not.

Look about
and wherever you look you will see change,
the world is designed to encourage it,
whoever, whatever, however
universe was created
stasis
was never in the equation.
Those who want world to stand still, crave control,
nothing more
noble,
nothing less selfless.

Look at the simplest cases and you will see
beyond doubt,
the universe embraces change,
if it did not,
why moulds would have been struck,
the originals turned out
and made immortal.
No procreation, no regeneration, no aging,
all stagnant, stale, void,
pointless,
the antithesis of Life, the rejection of creation.

Yet still Man resists
this one true inalienable fact,
only man says not
me,
I will enshrine what I deem worthy
in snow dome stupidity,
shake when rattled,
f@$! lucidity,

I prefer MY TRUTH.