AMPAT VARGHESE KOSHY

AMPAT VARGHESE KOSHY

TEARING sATAN'S KINGDOM DOWN 

(inspired by Robert Plant's song 'satan, thy kingdom must come down')

not my father

thou who art in hell

may thy name be not hallowed

may thy kingdom not come

may thy will not be done

on earth as it is not in heaven

We human beings do not want anything from you

neither bread nor forgiveness

nor to learn not to forgive others

We shall not be led into temptation

or delivered over to evil

for the Kingdom, the power and the glory

was never yours.

So be it.

ALL CERTIFIED LUNATICS

Today I found lying on the roadside

the broken and fractured body of God

which when I tried to piece together

a cacophony of voices arose

from the scattered and bleeding parts

in tongues of blood crying themselves hoarse

Some said they were Hindu

and some Christian

Some spoke of Allah

One even said I am Marxist but believe

Some said Jain

Some Sikh

Some Buddhist

Some Mormon

Some were Parsi

Some Baha'i

Some vain

Some spoke of Scientology

Some were satanists

Some Wicca

Some theosophists, atheists and antitheists or deists

Some sectarians and denominations galore

My hands getting bloodied

I left them there

and went searching for the Head

My God My God why hast thou forsaken thy body

Fractured and broken it by the roadside lies

I asked the Head that/who only told me

That time was an illusion

And in a sec

I looked at my hands

The blood found on it

All became clear

And back I went

to pick up the pieces

and fix them back

What was needed was just

to block my ears.

MORE GOD

The search for God led Buddha

some say

to zero shoonya nothingness emptiness

And two roads fork for the others

into saying no God exists

or God is live evil or evil live or dead

Or into speaking of a personal God

or an impersonal dash

It's true that men have worshipped

God, and everything

or nothing

or the Universe

or Nature and the Earth

and local, regional and geographical gods

and goddesses rather than worship nothing

unable to see them as only such

though they too can be conduits of the largesse

of God

as can men worshipped as God

if they be fair enough

Any name seems sometimes a road to something

but which one is the best?

The search for the path leads nowhere but to paths

till one realizes the truth is not to be searched for but if it is meant to be yours

it will come to you

and that assurance is all one needs

AMPAT VARGHESE KOSHY

DR KOSHY AV is presently working as Assistant Professor in the English Department in Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. He has two collections of poetry to his credit titled Figs and Allusions to Simplicity as well as a few other books and has co-edited or co-written some. His latest book is Scream and Other Urbane Legends, a collection of short fiction.