RELIGION WILL NEVER

Thoughts that are not my own

An inheritance for the soul

This made me feel all alone.

What religion will never know

Is the truth of the soul

How to become whole

A belief that segregated me

Religion never set me free.

Living beneath everybody

What religion will never see

Kindness is not the intent but only condemn

A community ego fills the ATM.

A spiritual movement stalled by the ego

Where are Thurman, King, and Gandhi today

Hear the weeping sister at the wall as she would pray

What religion will never hear

The voice of inner pain and fear

Without true light, the path isn't clear.

Declaring a path with no direction

Never arriving at the destination.

Living in a cage in a free nation

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2021

NOTES:

STAY AWAY

This feeling runs deep
So deep can't even think
With my feelings, I hide

Don't know what to say to you
When I think of you every day
When I'm with you
Don't know what to do

You know I'm true to you
There is only one thing for me to do
I got to stay away
Don't want to feel the pain
Don't want to see you that way
I got to stay away

I pray for you every day
That your pain would go away
Every time we talk
That pain is all you talk about

We've been friends for over a year
It feels so much longer
Don't know what to do
With this feeling, all this fear

You know I would do anything for you
How can I prove it to you?
I got to stay away
Do you hear all I say?
I don't want to go away
I got to go away

©Copyright Thomas Dooley