I drew a comic in support of the ground zero mosque; this comic depicts Mohammed.

I drew a comic in support of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque; this comic depicts Muhammad

in the first panel in which he appears,  I drew him in full burqa.  I figured no one could be offended, because you couldn't really see the messenger behind all that.

a couple of panels later, I drew him as a question mark, so you could see him in this poem. Here- Muhammed: ?

I designed a bumper sticker about prayer in defense of womb inns' rights. Intended to offend veryone and meant to be adhered to bumpers in church parking lots. It read:

Thank God For Abortion.

I wrote a play about the duality of Jesus, called "The Crucifixion of Christ's Cock." It offended a gay Catholic in my state school theater class. I told him I was not the enemy.

I jotted down some dreams about the woman I actually loved and shared a couple of these with a therapist. It changed nothing. The woman still (had never) loved me; the casual Jungian analysis did not make her betrayal any less injurious to my soul.

She kissed me- one last time- on the cheek / in a garden / like Judas. 

So wonder who or what is betrayed when you:

-panic over worship

-are afraid to draw the prophet

-assail the halted mothers

-deny the messiah's manhood

-feign that dreams of love are easily replaced

Do wonder who or what is betrayed by:

-panic over prayer

-fear to draw the prophet

-hatred of the halted mothers

-denial of the messiah's manhood

-feigned repairs to the heart

(- feigned love met with feigned indifference)

Perhaps God is betrayed; perhaps the truth is betrayed.

Perhaps god and the Truth are one and the same. Or

maybe / "perhaps"

do you

think

(you can 

whisper it)

they could be

opposites

?