by B. R. GOWANI
In Monroe, Ohio, a 6-story statue of Jesus, known as “Touchdown Jesus,” was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. PHOTOS/Nick Graham & Tiffani West-May/AP/Guardian
The second killing of Jesus!
Not in person but in form
Who struck down Jesus?
No human being was involved
For sure … it was a non-human crime
It was lightning that struck uninvited
Was it Yahweh?
Jesus was born and died a Jew
Yahweh can’t do this to his own
Was it Allah?
Ibn-e-Mariam or Son of Mary
Is one of the prophets in the Qur’an
So no Islamic culpability
Was it Zeus?
Nay. Zeus is history
Ahura Mazda?
Is on the way to history
Was it Indra?
He had his glorious days
Now he’s a minor deity
He wouldn’t risk such a blunder
Was it Theos*?
Theos can’t kill himself
It’s a suicide
It’s anti-Elah*
Last year,
Passing through Ohio
I stopped by
To catch a glimpse of Jesus
Did I sense some vibrations then …
Which reverberated on June 15?
Tlaloc* forbid!
Or is it a heavenly sign
Of the coming times
There have been Tsunami, Katrina, Layla
Then the volcano in Europe
Of such a magnitude
That, for many days
Planes couldn’t fly there
Now the BP oil spill
Is the 2012 for real?
Is this the future of our planet?
Is this how all the gods, Gods, and goddesses
Are going to end?
A scary thought, indeed!
A blackened steel skeleton is all that is left now. PHOTO/Nick Graham/The Dayton Daily News via AP/MSNBC
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com
*Theos and Elah means God in Greek and Aramaic respectively, the original languages of the New Testament, the Christian Bible.
Tlaloc was an Aztec god of fertility as well as lightning.