In The End

Oh, what a tangled
web we unweave
When we unmask
a love that deceives

They speak with a grin
and a wink in their eye
They tell me they love me

but it reeks of shit pie

It's a stench I smell often
In the churches and pews
Of the Christian religion
With it's rules and it's dues

I find fresh air in a meadow
By a stream or a lake view
Or deep within the forest
Where the sounds of life subdue

It's here, alone, in the lone time
Just me and my infinite heart
Where the whiffs and aromas of goodness
And the light of love fills my pot

There's a great deal of difference
'tween the love stew within
and the hate-filled concoction
that claims love is "sin"

So I'll take the meal within me
Not that swill that's laced with pain
I know I won't go hungry
True love does call my name

It's the sinners and the wicked
Who divvy out the pain
They lap it up like sheepdogs
Never separating grain

"Where are you, Lord? I miss you."
They seek, but they don't find.
He calls them from their shadows
"I'm right here, with love, just fine."

But they scurry when they hear it
For the darkness, they've been told
Is where lies the evil demon
That will take away their soul

So they eat and gorge their bellies
On the slop they've placed their faith
But little do they realize
After grace, they eat a wraith

It's just an apparition
A shadow of the real
They stuff it in their bellies
As they raise their squeaky squeals

"I've a book that gives me power
to possess the mind of God
I've determined that I love you
But your love is shit!," they prod

To the ones who stuff their faces
with their egos full of pride
there's nothing you could tell me
I would possibly abide

I've been drunk and sick on disdain
for my Self, my Soul, my Love
But those days are now over
All the clouds are gone above

Now the light shines on me brightly
while you wrestle with your gut
My life of death is over
I'm beyond the Christian rut

It's love that is my journey
It takes me to and fro
I've yet to find it packaged
with a ribbon and a bow

It's love I'll always follow
Even when the crowd goes right
when love is all that's left
I'll be there within the light