I was fed a lie
Suckled on illusions
Of sanctity suffocating
My stifled humanity
The all-seeing eye
Of a God, choked thoughts
That gagged on the nipple
Of holiness but not wholeness
I wonder what
He thought, as He
Watched, fear
Smother my humanity
Love perverted
By parameters of ideologies
The certainties of dogma’s
Making it easier
For His drones
Castrated by their fear
To warm themselves at
The empty hearth of faith
They assure me
They pray for my redemption
But I paid that price
Once
Once I lived
Redemption’s lie.
Seeking heaven
I ended in hell
So, dam your prayers
Your cloying desires
To create another
Clone of conformity
I will not bow
To a God, shrunken
By your certainty
You know Its mind
I may be aging.
But aging, still I rage
That I
Was fed a lie
Take your sanctity
And your certainty
Dam your prayers
And piety
For I was fed a lie
But I, I have learnt
To live with
My humanity
