The greatest paradox of all time,
Is that righteous men proselytize,
To desecrate and conquer,
Justifying their bestial crimes
As civilizing.
They pillage, exterminate, and rape,
As a-necessary-evil,
Contradicting their own words,
Barbarisms permeating,
Blasphemies reverberating,
With double-standard superiority undisturbed.
The hypocrisy of Christianity,
Subjugating virtuosity,
And the West with its Democracy,
Imposing an authority that creates
Crashing inequality.
A cost too heavy to bear,
Until pacification reigns,
Only when love returns.
Begonya Plaza-Rosenbluth is a New York accomplished theatre, television, and film actor, singer, author, and filmmaker. She wrote, and acted in Teresa’s Ecstasy, a two-act/three-character play that premiered Off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre, published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. Her writing is included in 2013 The Best Women’s Stage Monologues, among others.
