Fundamentalest

Who is the fundamentalist?
is it the Imam who divides the world
into fidels and infidels?

the Baptist youth group leader
who sees the saved and unsaved?

Me, I wouldn't want to be
a fundamentalist today
staring across the Atlantic
at their guy,
equally convinced
there is no God but Allah
as our guy,
saying "no man
cometh to the Father,
but by me"

Does anyone looking in that mirror today
ever have the uncomfortable feeling that
maybe both are wrong, or right?

No, I don't want to be that kind
of fundamentalist

I want to be the one in touch
with the foundation
of all religions,

I want to look over the lake
as the ripples in the air
are making their mark
on the water, and then
touching every flower
on the reedy bank
on their way up to
deftly support
for a few, passing moments
an entire flight of geese
honking north again

and know that
I see the God

of which they are talking
I am deeply one with
the divine field
over which they are
divided

and I am quietly being
what they should be
doing, on the
fundamentalest
level

-P