enlightenment police or a high noon stand off between buddha and the angel michael

in the middle of Berlin just north of Oranienplatz birds dart around and away from Buddha who sits full lotus style upon a circular altar a stack of a hundred drooling lions palm open and shielding his own heart staring at the angel Michael who stares back a high noon stand off birds swoop the corridor interfering with the duel breaking up at the concrete lip of the square pond at the base of the chapel where the winged statue looks through a hole in a still standing tabernacle like a monocled saint myopic techno disco soundtrack playing all day buddha will outlive being not of time and techno and the stoned angel forever engaged in a lame battle against satan’s forces now that we know what Nazis are capable of there is no winner here but archetypes angel father buddha mother law maker law breaker a picture painted by the chirps of birds in reverse a classic case of confusion from the enlightenment police