Not All Beliefs Are Good

Neither do we need to fix / What others believe / Nor let them compel us / To believe what they believe.

Neither do we need to fix

What others believe

Nor let them compel us

To believe what they believe.

Neither entrenched institutions

Nor their dogmatic beliefs have ever

Brought forth questioning and exploration.

Neither have beliefs in military domination

Nor righteous enmity

Have ever led to

Peace and friendship.

Neither do beliefs in greed

Nor elitist power

Ever created the virtues of honest generosity and sharing.

Nevertheless

there’s a rainbow emanating

From the marrow of every being

Where the multi-colorful beliefs

of human goodness glow forth.

(Words: Harvey Kraft; Art: re-colorized Vincent Van Gough)