THE NARROW ROAD
Dimensions
The Narrow Road
Beware the briars of literal Christianity,
Trust not to literal interpretation,
Lean more to transliteration,
Beware the fundamentalist’s charisma
in any religion.
Be not beguiled by lofty utterances.
Beware the ‘messenger’
"God has told me …”
Told you what?!
Beware the ‘prophet’
some latter-day Moses,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.
Enjoy the practicality of scripture,
your backdrop two millennia,
B’rit Hadashah;
and four millennia,
the Tanakh.
Or simply so, the first Five,
Torah;
whichever takes your fancy.
See it in that light
and this gloriously in perspective
Live by His Dictum:
I see not as man sees
I look at the heart and
not at the outward appearance.
In all religions
do lurk in murk four pillars :
dogma,
doctrine,
contrivance,
falsity.
To the unwary …
falsehoods rendered true
truth as useless …
To the unwary …
those pillars do render
truth a lie …
To the wary,
Very soon within that murk
we find the ugliest sister of all,
Conspiracy Theory …
Be forewarned
and thereby forearmed!
For then
You have in your hand
That which will cause
These pillars,
as ancient as Knowledge and Life itself,
to Crack,
and to Crumble,
and then to Collapse.
Freedom our reward!
And in the language
of this violent and evil century,
conspiracy theory,
stuff a fist in its gob.
11 March 2025
All Rights Reserved
LIVERPOOL
© 2025 Kenneth Thomas Web
Author Note
First published by Spiderwize (paperback) in Idle Thoughts, An Anthology of Poetry and Prose in September 2009
This New Edition aligns with the evolution of my thought and reasoning
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
