Faith from the Beginning

The piece below is part of an audio presentation that grew from a cinquain-T that was published on Poets Against the War and listed as a "Poem of the Week (Dec 18)" and on Grass & Gravel Times (Dec 20)

Our Father Which Art In Heaven

This species believes
   It was created in a divine image
   Not from apes descended
   Does not evolution conceive
   As the story of its beginnings
   Where survival of the fittest 
Carries forward the past

It could be true
   They have a culture test
   That requires the young and strong
   To kill each other 
   For honor and glory
   To please the old and dead
   Condemning the love of their mothers
To prove that God is the father