New Poem: "New Age Religion"

New Age Religion

Like a carrot on a stick, a New Age Religion

        with its ever-ready Master (both Inner

and Outer) promises safe haven from every

        decision, a potpourri of purloined wisdom

exotically articulated to sound like a fresh

        mountain stream mercifully pouring out

of the mouth of God, Light and Sound divine,

        sacred HU so full of promise only a fool

would refuse to call upon the sacred name;

       but as hard as every chela tries to satisfy

the longing in their soul, forever striving for

       the next initiation (a Fifth Initiate becomes

a member of the secret Order of the Oak), the

       carrot on the stick is always always always

 beyond the reach of the inveigled believer

        and robs them of their freedom to bear

the exquisite fruit of their own tree.