faith

words have always been there.

pushing against the lips of bullies on the playground,
crawling across the whitespace of a computer screen,
lurking in the shadows of moments unwoken;

but not all words have been seen as hurtful.

the bible's stories are holy,
its words preached, practiced, believed,
by everyone.

it is not touched or
altered, only hailed and
followed.

the bible tells of jesus and his disciples.

it tells us tales of triumph and defeat,
demonstrates in the simplest of ways,
how faith conquers all.

the bible teaches us about evil,
that to be true to our creator,
we must hinder ourselves.

sins,
it calls the acts of hindrance.
ungodly sins.

in the bible's eyes,

homosexuality is disgusting.
abortion is murder.
pre-marital sex is adultery against god.

in the bible's eyes,

love is circumstantial.
rape is a responsibility.
your choices about your body are at the liberty of the lord.

these words have been cloaked and concealed by priests,
continuously spoken without knowing how much pain they cause
with each new breath.

god loved jesus enough to give him two lives.

how can we say he created every man equally,
that he loves every man equally,

when we, as god's disciples,
pick and choose which of those men are worthy of the catholic church?

what gives us the right
to go against god's morals?

what gives us the right
to deny a man a life lived in faith
when another man got to live it twice?

jesus died and rose again because he was a leader.

the people listened to him, believed in him,
because he had good things to say.

let us rise again.