God
© Laura Craig Mason 2001

Confucius
told me
to achieve happiness
I should be 
bloated with baby
head down
and meek.

Jesus told 
my man
to abandon family
and tradition.
To wander in the desert
until his death

Dali Lamma told me
inner peace is beauty
but gay marriage a sin

Pan stays silent
knowing to speak fully
is to betray
one’s thoughts
of love,
the divine
and what’s right