Wednesday, November 30, 2016

yes i understand god cannot love me till i please you


i understand why you left

for an adult whose childhood

was one of abuse and abandonment

nothing will ever erase

how it was all my fault

i’m a disappointment

 

i’m a crumpled piece of paper

with no words

 

and all these christians

who tell me what i must be

to be accepted

are right

i don’t belong

in their religion

without forgiveness

 

so let me be the worthless piece of shit

who will never amount to anything

because to me your conditional love

represents a god

whose face resembles my parents

and inspired the me who wrote

the dark streets of decay

and i would rather suffer eternal hell

then pretend all is well

in a heaven with a god

who has to punish me

because i am someone whom

a mother could never love

 

oh and do me a favor please

shut up

you don’t care about me

you’re the priest and the pharisee

who walked by the injured

on the side of the road

it was the sinner who helped

because only the humility

of knowing  your own frailty

creates compassion

you do not represent christ

the christ who forgave

the woman who wept on his feet

dried them with her hair

while religious rule

gave no excuse for her sin

while the god of love

ate with the publicans and sinners

because he understood everything

sigmund freud never could

 

and how every action is a reaction

to the love you say i will never deserve

and what i must do to earn

till i am a dog that pees

on the floor

because i don’t know what

the rules are today

among your intolerance

for my inability to earn your love

 

it’s really not that complicated

until you meet someone like me

who questions the deity

of your authority

and sees you as just another person

you require to satisfy the lies

which allows you to be

the antithesis of selfishness

and tolerance of a god

that you have no desire to be

because god can only be relevant

if he agrees with your needs

to be considered to one

who must be obeyed

and the one who dispensates approval

 

and, yeah, i see you

without a clue

you are the one that will use

your ignorance to your advantage

while wounded such like me

can see

the christ of the gospels

who railed against those who see

while gathering  the wounded, the abused

by you

under sheltering wings

of whom we sing of the hope

that the scope of his love includes me

instead of what you say his love should be

 

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