A Moderate

A Moderate

Is it possible to be a moderate,

Even if independent, democrat or GOP?

Any breathing human without doctorate

Has a belief system for all to see.

Take a person of faith or religion

Who holds to a set practice or book.

It may be open or hidden

To aliens something difficult to brook.

One book authorizes killing,

Ridding unbelievers for some good.

Adherents who are quite willing,

Remove perceived infidels where they once stood.

Is this authorization extreme or moderate?

Is their book the standard for all?

Veering from its content opens the gate

Fearing even their own demise – blood, guts, and gall.

If beheadings are standard in their book,

Its believers not deemed extreme,

For they are the faithful who take

Seriously the book and its theme.

Politically correct leaders seek tolerance.

Knowing nothing of realities in words.

“Moderation and forbearance,”

They say is what tolerance affords.

What some call extreme

Is actually the faith’s norm.

A moderate is complete fantasy or a dream

No matter what the verbal form.

Suppose there are “moderate” Jews,

And “moderate” Christians, too.

How then do they spread the news,

To their “extremists” they never knew.

A faithful, moderate Jew

Cannot be;

A middler Christian will not do.

True faith never undulates as the sea.

The moderate Jew knows no Torah,

His messiah and temple, empty dreams.

His bloodline bleeds pure aura,

But his eyes no Star of David gleams.

The moderate Christian has no Cross,

The Resurrection not so spectacular.

The blood of his Savior seems lost,

With a moderate, a person secular.

Seeking moderate believers is futile,

They must abandon their Meccan faith.

For its fundamental belief is brutal

Conversion, the Prophet saith.

Neither moderation nor the moderate

Can hold faith in mid-way form.

Moderation itself is nothing.

Find the faith through total reform!