[Old and Unreadable] Max's Thought-Provoking Poetry

War of Attrition: A torch in the dark

Religion, religion, arduous but reliable
The path it presents is hardly deniable

It is a torch, a magnanimous glow in the dark
A path it will show you, should you open your heart
In a world littered with bones and devastation
Where do you go when forced out of your nation?
Where do you go when stumbling into the black of life?
The torch will show the way and never lie
The torch is your faith, you live the way it leads you
Should you reject it, will the black ensue?
Why would you turn from the path you can build happiness?
Why so many questions left unanswered?

Without a torch to lead you, what have you become?
Will you stray from the path you feel you belong?
Or do you even need this blatant suffocation?
Is faith's path just leading to damnation?
For rules are brimming in this church you sit
There is nothing stopping you from letting off a bit
For this path the torch shows you is oh so narrow
Would walking down it fill you with sorrow?
For we were created, be it by God or not
We are all unique, would this path make out individuality forgot?

The glow gives you purpose and turns you away from the black of night
But maybe black is just your kind of light?