Kit Kelen - responding to two ideas of Chrys's - I'd rather be laid in the navel

I'd rather be laid in the navel

responding to two ideas of Chrys's

when I go to a church

I'm not really going

I'm visiting the Museum of Belief

how wonderful it's well preserved

so sacred to the memory

how quaint the hates and loves preserved

and each disguised its special way

every prayer was ever prayed there

still rattles the rafters like bats

with a mosque, with any temple it's like this

every god wants to be the one

Mercury, the messenger, is lonely with errands

such a sea to cross

one day they'll visit parliaments like this

and the tour guide will tell the children

in those days, though they were always fighting,

this was the best way they could agree

with shops

with banks

with schools

the same

but then I imagine museums will go too

we'll just be in the open air

with what

hands

eyes

and hearts

can hold

to be honest

I'd rather be laid in the navel

or do it on the turtle's back

with dragonflies to catch the light

and keep me in the here-and-now