My Favorite Battle Axe!

Two days ago, on Tuesday night, my friends and I put together a creative showcase we have called "Inspired by True Events." I don't want to get into the details of it right now, because that's not the point of this post. The point of this post is to share one of the pieces I constructed for that evening. Here's what happened:

My friend River came at me with the proposition of doing another show, with about a week's notice. Now, normally I would be super excited about the prospect of doing something, because I don't typically do much. However, this time I was a little worried--I hadn't written anything new in a long time, and I didn't want to re-hash the same old pieces, even though some of them have only been read once. Thus, I took it upon myself to write a new set within the confines of the week. Needless to say, I did it. I managed to write 10 new pieces in 7 days; read one that I had previously read; recited a piece that I had written in my head over the course of the last month or so; AND free styled one about sumo wrestlers and giant pick up sticks! Of course most of you missed it, but out of the struggle to write new pieces came one that was inspired by the inspiriation I get from a passage in the book of Jeremiah (the 51st chapter). It goes something like this:

²⁰ You are my war club, my weapon of battle:
with you I smash nations;
    with you I destroy kingdoms;
²¹ with you I smash the horse and its rider;
    with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;
²² with you I smash man and woman;
    with you I smash the old man and the boy;
with you I smash the young man and the girl;
²³     with you I smash shepherds and their flocks;
with you I smash farmers and their teams;
    with you I smash governors and deputies.

From this I derived this piece, entitled "My Favorite Battle Axe," enjoy:

According to the Bible, I am God's battle ax, God's weapon of war. With me, God is going to do any number of horrible things, it says it right there in plain English:

You are my battle ax, my weapon of war:

with you I smash nations; with you I destroy kingdoms;

with you I smash the horse and its rider;

with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;

with you I smash man and woman;

with you I smash the old man and the boy;

with you I smash the young man and the girl;

with you I smash the shepherds and their flocks;

with you I smash farmers and their teams;

with you I smash governors and deputies.

Now, this is all well and good, but I'd rather not be the divine bitch of a blood thirsty deity. I like the idea of being a battle ax, or even a weapon of war of some sort (perhaps a war-hammer or a crow's beak), but I'd rather my actions be dictated out of love rather than wrath.

Instead of smashing things, why not build things?

Instead of destroying things, why not create things?

Instead of inciting riot against people, why not incite love for our neighbors?

So often, when the tough, the rough and the all together hard rears its head, the smart thing isn't always the right thing—even if you're god.

Running, hiding and all the other things people do in hard times may be the smart thing: nobody wants to get hurt, be challenged or die, but what does running do?

Sure you will live, for a while, but eventually you will grow tired and weary. The difficult will eventually find you and make you its bitch: bend you over and give you at lease nine kinds of hell, more if you're worth it!

Sure, if you battle through it, you might die! We all die eventually, regardless if we cower in fear or not. Death is inevitable, but how you get there is up to you: do you avoid life and die as a coward, or do you wield you battle ax and depart this world a warrior?

The choice is yours...

Do you smash things with a vengeful wrath, or do you wield your weapon of war and fight for the hard things, the right things, the beautiful things?

My favorite battle ax, is the one wielded with love, not wrath!

Which one is yours?

~Thank-you!~