Artwork by Grizzlybaer |
save me
please save me
from chosen people
on a flat Earth
on a self-righteous path
blood-red carpeted
by the many books re-written
all singularly purporting
to have the right answer
save me
from hiding behind the veil
of civil liberty's shiny shield
springing attacks
on women's rights
on homo sexuality
and human progress
save me from myself
save me
from submitting myself
from calls to bow down
not to think
to question
about imaginary friends in our head
or monsters under my bed
save me
from taking human messages of hope
and book-binding them
shackled with fear
you've been with us
right
from the beginning
closing doors
in righteous cause
haven't you taken enough time
and hell is what you made of it
bloated and overfed
while heaven's a dream
of a world without gods
all their saviours long dead
save me from them
the only ones who condemn
sin me up a scoreboard
preying upon my soul
save me
the obstinate obsession
with tolling up transgression
save your breath
for the life-after-death
your ideas, at least, might get
their time will be through
when people finally realise
all we have ever
actually
needed saving from
is hypocrites like you.
Randall Stephens in action |