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Unholy Grail

Kurt Philip Behm

The Christians
and the Gnostics
can either sect be right
Would God omniscient
have created
such violence and blight
To kill and maim
rape and burn
for scripture misconstrued
Defies the spirit
and the mind
— disproving Him anew

(Villanova University: February, 2024)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 05, 2024

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Scheme AABXXBXXXXXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 269
Words 45
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 1
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