Psalm

I don’t need your god
I don’t need your eternal, paternal god
Don’t need your reassuringly protective
Good and evil in perspective god
Don’t need no imported, distorted, inflated, updated holy roller,
save your soul, or anaesthetisingly opiate god
Don’t need no, «All creatures that on earth do dwell; be good or you go to hell»
god
Don’t need no «Hare Krishna! Hare Krishna! Hail Mary! Hail Mary!» god
Got no yen for zen, Bhagavad Gita, or gurus
No mormons, methodists, seventh-day adventist gods. No absolutes beyond refute
— the reverential, preferential, Judaic, messianic god
No bibles, no mahajanas, instant dharma gods
Don’t need no spiritual suicide, prefrontal lobotomising god
Don’t need no stoic, sexless, antiseptic god
Don’t need no neon crucifix
No crusade, no burka, or kabbalah
No camels, or needles, or papal decrees
No mail order icons, korans or mandalas
No Meher Babas
No imams or ayatollahs
No sharia
No opus dei
No dianetics
No tarot or beads
No devadasi
No immortal, invisible «God's only wise.»
Don’t need no televised, circumcised, incessant, incandescent gods
I don’t need your gods
I need human beings
The beasts of the field
The earth and the stars
I need some kind of love
I need you