Dear God, You Might Be Fake, but the Devil is Real
I may have believed in God
But I always thought the devil was a farce
Sitting in the cramped closet of a church for Sunday School
The girl next to me sneezes and I don’t bless her
Challenging the demons to flood into her mouth
I got scolded for thinking that my power to bless,
would pale in comparison to sitting in a house of worship
Still, I goated the wicked spirits to come and do their worst but,
It wasn’t til’ many years of religious ambiguity
And unsubscribing to all faith
Later, did my eyes find evil
Yes I met the devil
And it was in all the people coming at each other
even though they all worship the same God
Unaware he just uses a different pseudonym for each of their holy texts
You know,
Jesus, Abraham, Moses all heard the word of God from the horse’s mouth
But when I look at a burning bush all I see is the destruction of life
They preach love thy neighbor as they shoot up a church
And before you all crucify me for blasphemy
Know that my problem is not with God, or Gods, or the theory that some entity
created the universe
Just because I don’t have faith doesn’t mean they don’t exist
But we’re all avoiding the truth
holding faith for the future in horoscopes
And footnotes from the Bible
We’re all just animals parading around in oil
No one is better for the sort of religious robes they choose to atone
We’re all the devils and
The real thing we should be worrying about is the reckoning,
You know,
the real reckoning, when the international pissing contest of whose warhead is bigger
Comes to a conclusion
Consider it the great flood but with it comes
People turning on people
Then we are doomed to be extinct
So when that time comes to pick up the knife
I don’t know whether I’ll point it at your chin
Or mine
So kiss your children goodnight and try to wake up tomorrow
With the fear them not being able to grow up
Then maybe insight some change
Say hi to your neighbor bill, open your mind, tolerate the bs
Stand up for someone with your mouth and your teeth
And not some 210 character tweet
and do something