by Woody McCree
I’m Confucian,
I’m a Buddhist,
I’m a Mystic injudicious.
I’m a Hindu,
I’m a Christian,
I’m a Daoist Judaistic.
Every moment I keep changing,
Every world-view rearranging.
Don’t go thinking I am faithless;
There is method to my madness.
All beliefs are fluxuating,
Rapid hyper-ventilating,
Kalaidoscopic mind-rotating.
All for one and one for all-
Allah, Krishna, Yahweh, Kali.
The tilt-a-whirl just keeps on spinning;
Where it stops nobody knows.
But take a bit of consolation-
Here all ends are new beginnings.
Woody McCree is a professor of religion and philosophy at the State College of Florida