Where to go from Here?

Are we doomed or might there be
a divinely inspired solution?
Can religious doctrine metamorphise
into a true morality and thus provide
a viable exit strategy from global despair?

Can we abandon the dogma of
"there is no other god than mine"
for a form of divinity with a global appeal;
a teaching to bring healing to the nations?

We need, somehow, to open the eyes of the blind.
Sadly vested interest destroys such visions
and the salvation that they offer is diverted;
camouflaged to protect self-interest;
the cult of the individual.

Perhaps, through some further pandemic,
we may learn to cooperate and to love each other,
but our terminal demise seems much more likely.