Many years ago
I sat listening to the sermons preached
to the verses shared
songs touching souls
and plays narrating stories
decoding messages for laymen like me
Speak in tongues if you could
Hug the strangers next to you if you would
Bare your soul
Bath in the light
Connect, be touched
and be engulfed
It almost felt like ecstasy
Naked
Warm
A soothing irony void in the world today
It brings tears
tears of joy
tears of truth
tears of liberation
It reeks of freedom
freedom to love
freedom to trust
Free of judgement
and condemnation
Words heal
Music the universal language
Works in seamless ways
could touch the toughest being
cloud the sharpest mind
An unsuspicious tool to indoctrinate trusting minds
To contort the truth
and warp the faith
A chaste beginning that succumbs
For the same fateful end awaits
when man’s weakness is taunted
May logic and rationale prevail
to wake up the fallacy of it all
Yet, nothing would have changed
for human nature reigns
and perfect fools will rush in
and history will repeat itself
as it always does
since the beginning of time
~ a non follower
