This clerical obsession

Must this clerical obsession
ultimately break us,
we who minister
within constraints of creed
which hobble intellect
and cripple reason?
We no longer seek
or probe
but vainly,
blindly,
follow sightless guides
gone before.
© Andrew Pratt 17/12/2018

Must this clerical obsession
ultimately break us,
we who minister
within constraints of creed
which hobble intellect
and cripple reason?
We no longer seek
or probe
but vainly,
blindly,
follow sightless guides
gone before.
© Andrew Pratt 17/12/2018