To Whom You Pray

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I reject all your religion,

  in favor of myself

 

Those spewing virtues dogma,

  often kill, with little felt

 

I reject your revelation,

  with the truth inside my heart

 

I surrender your salvation,

  from your guilt I live apart

 

I challenge your commitment,

  when the road gets hard and long

 

The good intentions you submit,

  Hell’s words without a song

 

I reject all faith in platitudes,

and your threats—both veiled and not

 

I refuse to live in servitude,

 and tied to what we’re not

 

I will reach inside the goodness,

  born to each and every man

 

I will choose to see the wonder,

  of those souls who say “I can”

 

And as I look beyond tomorrow,

  to that place we call today

 

I will live in thanks for who I am,

  —and not to whom you pray

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

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Published by Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with 21 books published to date—one best seller. Much of my writing is about the deception of time and its many disguises. My Poetry 'An Anthology Of Perception,' is now available in four volumes. In addition I have a 175 page Poem 'After Midnight,' that was published in 2014. My Historical Fiction series, 'The Sword Of Ichiban' is now up to volume 8 which is being published this Spring ... Vol #1- The Sword Of Ichiban Vol #2- Darkening Sun Vol #3- Revenge Along The War Trail Vol #4- Death From The Sky Vol #5- Jumping Into the Darkness Vol #6- The Fall City Mandate. Vol #7- Approaching Storm Vol #8- Brothers In Blood One autobiographical novel, 'The Death Of The Playground' a Best Seller, published in 2007. One travel novel, 'Searching For Crazy Horse,' published in 2005, recapping my forty years of motorcycle touring in the American Rocky Mountain West. I have written one Children's Book, 'Sammy & Bumpers' that was published in 2016. All of my books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and better Book Stores world wide. Kurt Philip Behm

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