Thoughts, Memories and Dreams From Long Ago - A Poem Collection.

Religious Trauma

There are few things I believe to be true

And too many questions I want to ask you

So please sit and listen to this sinners voice

Please hear what I say, and my eyes don't avoid

I know you are good, and you've been kind to me

Through all of my troubles and shadows, I see

Your light shining through the deep valley of death

I can't see your face, yet I know you're out there

But my faith's been shaken by your mortal sons

They say that to heaven I'll never belong

And that what I feel is disgusting and wrong

They kick me away, they all want me gone

So please would you kindly come answer my call

Would you tell me you love me, that you don't mind at all

The way that I love, and I dress and behave

Is the way you have made me, and you love me this way?

I know I'm not perfect, so no,  I won't try

To judge all my haters, my bullies, their lies

But please send a message to them from my part

And ask them to open their minds and their hearts

Cause me and my people we just want to go

To a place that is quiet, and there's light, and there's hope

Where we are all passengers of the same boat

Where our soul is respected as a whole

Cause we all bleed and eat, and we all live all the same

We're all tiny pawns in the great astral plane

So why live in shame, and spread this sick pain

That we can't live together in this earthly terrain

So please would you kindly come answer my call

Would you tell me you love me, that you don't mind at all

The way that I love, and I dress and behave

Is the way you have made me, and you love me this way?

One thing I've been taught and I stand by with pride

And I've tried to apply in my everyday life

It's that outside of charity there's no salvation

And that a  lack of empathy only leads to damnation

That helping each other's the best way to go

That little we've seen, that little we know

I know you agree with these things I've just said

I know cause you've proved me, again and again

But could you please tell them, so they'll understand

That you love every creature, and being, and man

And that you designed us to be like you are

Intelligent, strict, but so full of warmth

No matter the gender we love or we are

You care for us all, and you pray from afar

Cause we are all your children,

Born beneath your bright star.