Silly me—
I believed that
you Christian leaders, you,
the ones that I knew,
were different than those others.
You would never
cover up
a scandal or abuse.
No, not the Christian leaders I knew.
Silly me,
to believe such
hopeful things—
when I can see even those
Christian leaders
in red hats
have built their stages
on perverse facts-
of abuse and rape
and scandals too.
Silly me, who thought they
were different than you.
Sep 3, 2025
Sep 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM UTC
Silly me—
I believed that
you Christian leaders, you,
the ones that I knew,
were different than those others.
You would never
cover up
a scandal or abuse.
No, not the Christian leaders I knew.
Silly me,
to believe such
hopeful things—
when I can see even those
Christian leaders
in red hats
have built their stages
on perverse facts-
of abuse and rape
and scandals too.
Silly me, who thought they
were different than you.
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