A Way of Life
Minarets and loud speakers
Dispense the call to prayer.
Imams and korans
Instruct on what to wear.
Incorporated into culture
Becoming a way of life,
Force of habit,
Passed along amid the daily strife.
Headscarves and few laughs
Customs and practice,
Prostrations and genuflections,
Actors and actresses.
Opher – 20.3.2019
It was all too prescriptive for me. It looked like mass conformity and a loss of identity.
The emphasis is on getting to some future paradise.
Not for me.
I do not believe in any god that acts that way, any after-life. This life is good enough for me.
Religion is too stifling and reductive. I want more truth than that offers.