What message do I leave for a world that is dying?
Even though they specialize in destruction and lying,
they can never stop all of us from feeling what they don’t.
They can’t prohibit art, or us standing up for what they won’t.
All they do is pretend and it fills them with hate.
Their myths create division and calls to subjugate.
I’ve read that book they claim to know, with its ever-changing notes.
Love and wrath, written testaments they follow selectively, by quotes.
Picking & choosing, they take the ones they like & leave those that they don’t.
Do they worry about contradictions? If they don’t serve them, they won’t.
They have twisted up this thing that some might still call faith.
It is something warped and weak, transparent as a wraith.
In the words of the good book, “they know not what they do.”
In the Age of Information, this just doesn’t ring as true.
How does one send a message to those beyond their time or place?
That the cruel, self-serving ones, in their cowardice, lack God’s grace.
They do not represent us all, do not convey the truth of us inside.
For all the beauty that we can behold, in fear, must now run and hide.
We’ll pray we make it through, survive to fight another day.
Dear friends, steady on, take care through all the traps they lay.
They are bewitched body and soul, but the thing that’s really broken,
leads them down the poisoned path, is that their faith is but a token.
For never shall the follower know, the message “God is love,”
if all they’re ever sold are lies, they will wear the serpent’s glove.
They will strike at all they meet, with their venom close at hand.
Will not accept the truth about the side for which they take a stand.
I can’t know if their myths are real, but I have faith, gleaned from clues,
If God is real and “God is love,” I know which side he’ll choose.
Olivia Hillaire, writer 
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