a night on the town

a night on the town

the bouncers at club Heaven

tossed me out on my soul

before I had a chance

to glance

at the North Star of the show

I tried to look over my catechism 

to see

what he must be

according to Hoyle

there is a play

that is legal

but that church door

swung shut 

when my faith needed to be let in

most

I searched another bar

but faith became

more devil's hands

throwing me out into the street

my bible thrown after me

so I sat on a curb

writing

my way back towards 

some kind of belief

while nursing my sores

from a rejection

I never imagined

as a child

who reached the age of reason

sternly forbidden to understand

why.

erin-cilberto

4/26/25

Reviews

[Dylan Macadham]

The Church & God are, of course, two different things.
God, if He exists, and if He personifies Love-thy-Neighbor--and those are 2 Big IF's--remains ever Mysterious ......"Why?" is an apt ending to your thought-provoking write!

[MCS]

Keepers of faiths are very poor examples and often rotten to their cores. Perhaps having the doors of these establishments closed in one’s face is a blessing disguise.

[Chris Shaw]

The church door shut for me when I was a teenager. I didn’t feel the warmth and the ones who could have given it, didn’t. There were some I noticed, who were not full of the milk of human kindness and certainly didn’t follow the teachings of Jesus. Organized religion, just doesn’t work for me j.

Chris

[Lorry]

Ah, those kids we used to be, before real life (™️ - patent pending) got a bit too up close and personal.
Sadly it is a sign of the times that heaven even needs bouncers these days!

[John the Baptist]

I guess the original church fathers who formulated theology and rituals could not forsee what literacy would do to their creations.

[Vol]

Jacob,
The many of the atheists I've known want to talk about the failures of the church and then apply those shortcomings to God. I'm a studied Christian, steeped in the tradition, and as far as I can see, from 2000 years down the line, the church has preached a perverted gospel from the very beginning...
Vol