Of pilgrimage and divinity

Pilgrimage as a niche for battered souls,
and leverage of the faithful
cure festering sins
Unholy entente, corporate deals, imperial politics
damage the essence of pilgrimage now.

Divinity is a reason for pilgrimage
and if woven with ambiguity,
is a threat to the individual
Sisypus knew it well
as does a laborer or rickshawalla.

But divinity and pilgrimage is a casual concoction of
status symbol, power play and bankrupt religiosity
for rulers and regimes blessed with timorous teeth and tenacity.