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EN REALIDAD

In Reality

By Victor MendezPublished 4 months ago • 2 min read
EN REALIDAD
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This is an old writing. My AI, when I asked it to analyze this called it "prose-poem manifesto". I cut maybe 3-5 words from the original and had my AI create breaks to make it more readable or digestible, if you will. But the writing, every word, is mine. Enjoy..or not.

EN REALIDAD (in reality)

written October 27th, 2023

I don't believe in the God of this world or of Christians

or Muslims or that God even exists on this world.

I have seen so much pain and suffering and hurt

and I see the evil and greed of men

while others live without food or clothes on the street

that I cannot see God anywhere.

I do believe in reincarnation, in past lives,

in redeeming oneself and earning a better life next time.

I have seen some beautiful people—mentally and physically—

and some of the most beautiful places in the world,

and scientists have given me a glimpse of the stars

that I will return to when I die

before I am reincarnated

and who knows what I'll be.

I'll embrace my future as a piece of carbon out in space

traveling between stars,

or a tree or plant or an insect or rat on a distant frontier.

Or I may come back to heaven, to Earth,

as something completely different from my humanity.

I think life on Earth is heaven—

we've just done such a twisted job of caring for it,

we created a "HELL" in our mind to compare it to,

to say it will be worse for religion's sake.

God is so much more than an idea

on a lil round ball of dirt.

When they say God created,

they don't realize the immense power it takes

just to create One Sun.

All the power, the energy from fire to electricity

to the nuclear since the dawn of life on our planet,

from the time we crawled from the seas

or even from the moment "God" magically put us on this planet—

from Adam to Eve to you and me now—

ALL that power, all that energy

is what the SUN, our SUN

(a dwarf SUN, not even a mid-size, much less a solar GIANT)

generates in just a few minutes—

heck, let's be generous and say in an hour.

And our planet benefits from the raw power

in the form of sunlight

that takes 8 minutes to travel 93 million miles

to us from that dwarf sun.

Now THAT is a God of power.

Is it any wonder our ancestors believed the SUN was a GOD.

THAT is a God of power—

not the god that people pray to on Sundays

for their football team to win today,

nor the one jihadists cry to for revenge

and as a battle cry.

Nor is God the milieu of the religious—ONLY.

They have hijacked something good for evil

and their propaganda is powerful.

peace

Writing ExerciseLifeStream of Consciousness

About the Creator

Victor Mendez

Born in 1958.There's a lot of road beneath these feet.Worn out pairs upon pairs of shoes.Been a ranch kid,a city kid,a Marine,a dad, a grandfather now,an avid reader and just recently began writing poetry in 2015 just to vent.

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    Written by Victor Mendez