Unknown Faith

If I was in a religion

Then where were the altars and who were the gods?

And if the justice was nothing but a sinner

Then did judgement day ever come?

And if there was a callous minister

How did he manage to entrance the flock?

If it was heresy to praise the queen of heaven

Then why was her name still called upon?

A supposed priestess desecrated tabernacles

Abandoned claimed worship and stained it in blood

After condemning her past convictions

She said, “it’s freer out of Eden’s garden”

But they say she gave into temptations

For power, control, and dark addictions

Though her faith seemed strong and her miracles were known

So were her actions and beliefs behind closed doors

It was no secret, her agnosticism towards the spiritual

But she sure threw together a sect of her own

She said their deities weren’t named as such

But that all knew the brimstone if they saw them mess up

If they ever got close to those that were shunned

They’d be condemned to the same fate and left on the run

Do I believe her claims of a doomsday cult?

Well, I believe in it as much as I had ever led the charge

When I was there, which is to say barely at all

For there is little to indicate it was enough

There were powerful people left rather unchecked

But in many senses, you could still be direct

Disagreements didn’t automatically mean the end

Of your presence, though you might be left to fend

At least on the surface, people praised different gods

Sometimes, they seemingly worshipped none

What did this mean, when faith didn’t run deep

In tradition, but rather modern pleasantries?

Would I ever come back? That ship has sailed.

Things seem too different for me to go back there

But if my knowledge still paints some truth

Then…what she says isn’t fully a ruse

From what I’ve seen, unlike with me in another place:

They didn’t force followers to be raised

With karma blindly dictating every step of the way

It’s been so long, though, what can I say

When I could carve out my own path for today?

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