Take Me To School
Minor content warning: religious irreverence
Lately, I’ve been seeing Jesus everywhere
Arms open, in dire need of a hug
But I just had my shirt cleaned
For years I declined invitations to His many homes
Scrolled past thousands of posts and memes
Deleted every friend request with satisfaction
But I can’t claim to have walked far from the teachings
Poured into my ears since birth,
Stitched into my heart with threads of guilt
I just took a long detour around His interpreters
Now I’m back to fill their coffers
Placing my children in the collection plate
Risking inculcation for a better education
Vouched for by the one person I trust
Hint: it’s not Jesus
Alongside homework with fractions and physics
Are tales of mass and echoes of prayers I repeated ad nauseum
Every day I swallow my hypocrisy
Meekly proclaim I’m no different than them
Using Him for my own purposes
His teachings are the foundation, but
Corporations can’t be people
Institutions can’t love
All I have left to do is pray
That my kids are taught by good people
With their best interests at heart
All while we assume
I’ll be waving at them from Hell
About the Creator
Sean A.
A happy guy that tends to write a little cynically. Just my way of dealing with the world outside my joyous little bubble.
Getting Serious About Comedy (Part I)
If I were asked to remark on my life and the childhood that paved some road leading me to this point, I would have to say something about all the funny people who surrounded me for the last 26,872 days (and counting). Somewhere along that road, I became a big fan of laughter and the comedy that spawns it – and, I mean not only my own laughter, but the laughter of others, some of which I have actually been responsible for inducing.
By John Oliver Smith2 days ago in Humor
Comments (3)
"Placing my children in the collection plate" is a sledgehammer of a line!
This is filled with an open honest reality that most people will not admit. Sure this character may have deleted deeper than most, it’s not to others are far away.
Those first few lines are deep, the whole piece is deep. I found it interesting to read and catch a glimpse of this controversial topic through your perspective.