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Michael Stipes (losing our religion)

Life is bigger- than you; me-

 

you treading mire

choosing these heavy eyed tragedies over religion

 

me holding on

so tightly to that comforting distance always-

In my eyes the comedy is that I'm losing

these confessions once spoken-

I say so much under covers throwing

faith  at empathetic shadows.

 

Can't we hear our better demons?

 

Feel sympathies?

 

God's abandoned as we protest

a dismal fantasy over truth- and off our knees

we use cold notions of what's "real"... like fools-

Our ironic hint towards the centuries

as we lose our religion- trading flaws for other flaws

 

Pretending all the time

 

God was just a dream.

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aaron-kerman
33 / M / American
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Aug 27, 2011
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