Glopwrimo 26

Glopowrimo #26

"There is none righteous, no, not one, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."

Thou shalt not kill
Wrote God with his finger
On a clay tablet
And gave it to Moses
who came down
got angry, and immediately
made some of their own
kill others of their own
The sons of Levi
killed the other Israelites
for the sin of idolatry
while Moses broke the clay tablets

Thou shalt not kill
God wrote again
and gave it, this time
to Moses, in stone
engraved, so that
it could not be broken
and then they killed
and killed and killed
to capture what
Abraham had called
the Promised Land

Thou shalt not kill
said Jesus, to all
but after some years
of getting killed
Christianity
became the state religion of Rome
From being martyrs, they changed it
to being a religion of international killers, galore.

Thou shalt not kill
said Jesus to all
so they burned the witches
held the Crusades
massacred the Saracens and Turks
who killed back
over the Holy Land
hung the heretics
Catholics killed Protestants
Protestants killed Catholics and each other
All in the name of
Thou shalt not kill

Thou shalt not kill
even an ant
said Vardhamana Mahaveera
and Gautama Buddha, later
but Chandragupta Maurya
the Jain chakravarti
and emperor Ashoka
at Kalinga,
both gave the story
quite another twist
as does the fact
 that there are samurais who are senseis
in China, and in Japan
who are Buddhist monks.
Yes. Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not harm
or hurt anyone
or anything
the ancient rishis
taught
in Mahabharath.
Thou shalt not kill

Thou shalt kill
said the Aryans
Kill the asuras
Kill the suryavanshis
So Rama killed
Ravana
Krishna helped Arjuna
to kill
Karna
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill

Thou shalt not kill
an innocent soul
said the prophet Mohammed
Peace be on him
but the Mughals came
and killed the ones
who live in what is now
North India
Just or All the same
Thou shalt not kill

Time would end
if I kept on listing
Buddhists in Myanmar killing the Rohingyas
Jews in Germany killed in the Holocaust by Nazis
and in Russia killed in the pogroms by Orthodox Christians
Palestinians in Israel killed by the Jews
Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh who got killed
Muslims in India now getting lynched
Christians in Sri Lanka who just got bombed
Partition killings on both sides of the border
The British who killed Indians
The whites who killed the blacks and the aboriginals
who had earlier killed each other as tribals
Godse who killed Gandhi
Sikhs who killed Hindus and Muslims
Hindus and Muslims who killed Sikhs
Those gruesome riots
When Indira was killed
where Sikhs were killed
Communists who kill everyone else
Those everyone else who kill communists
Hindutva fanatics who killed Gauri, Passare and Dabolkar
Atheists who were killed
Atheists who kill others
China that kills

Thou shalt not kill

Animals killed
Birds killed
Trees and plants killed
Insects killed
Water, air, earth, fire, ether all killed, murdered and so the earth killed
Husbands who kill wives
Wives who kill men
Men who kill women
Children who kill parents
Parents who kill children
Families, tribes and clans
who kill each other
and others' families, tribes and clans
Rich who kill the poor
Poor who kill the rich
Caste-based killings
Honour killings
Serial killers
Random loss of temper or self-control killings
Revenge killings
Money-based killings
Suicides
Fratricides, matricides
patricides, pesticides
genocides, homicides
every other fucking -cides
Pakistanis who kill
Indians who kill
Armenian genocide
Serbian genocide
Syrian genocide
Bosnian, Herzegovnian and Latvian genocides
The Sri Lankan genocide
Governments that kill
Armies that kill
Nations that kill
Laws that kill
Law keepers who kill
The lawless who kill
The law breakers who kill
The outlaws who kill
The in-laws who kill
Everybody takes a side
Nuclear deaths
Hiroshima Nagasaki
World War I
World War II
Bhopal deaths
Chernobyl and Fukushima deaths
Thou shalt not kill
Everyone's a killer
Everyone kills

Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill

Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill