Agnostic

angsty librarian on Aug 13, 2011

A poem about doubt.

The hypocrisy of the “organized”

Preaching love and spreading war

Has left too many traumatized

Mixed messages of destiny and free will

Give us urges, tell us they are wrong

Make me infertile, tell me I shouldn’t be loved

But everyone is to be loved, tell me I’m wrong not to love

A book translated repeatedly

Authors unverified, narrators unreliable

Morals and tales deified misleadingly

Some sects stand like towers

Rules set in stone that should be altered

Some shift like the sand

Changing with each tide and fad to stay relevant

My unsteady faith fell through the cracks of reason

Heaven dissolved from my imagination into my tears

My doubts grew with each passing season

Hell loomed longer in my fears

Beauty beyond chance in the laughter of a child

Ugliness beyond forgiveness in the scars I’ve seen

Hope in the kindness of a stranger

Despair in the actions of the mean

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AmosTheCat on Oct 18, 2011
Angsty, I love it. You seem to regret that religion does such a poor job of appealing to anything that benefits anybody or anything. Maybe I’m just reading my own take on it. If that is it then I have to concur. I can’t bring myself to call myself an agnostic but to most Christians I am or at worst an Atheist. I converted to Catholicism when I married. But I told the priest I came pre-backslidden. Further that I don’t know that God particularly wants me to be a Catholic, but he probably would not mind, or, perhaps, doesn’t really care. Sorry to plug my work but you can get a peek at my religious belief, if you are interested, in my poem “At the Cottage” OK, gotta go read another of your poems.
marqjonz on Oct 20, 2011
Very good, but needs some revision. I like the half-rhyme of “sand” and “relevant,” but I don’t think the line ends “repeatedly,” “unreliable” and “misleadingly” work together.
Nxwtypx on Apr 1, 2012
Word. Atheism. It’s not a relationship, it’s a personal relationship with reality.

Hi there!