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

[Sami Khalil]

I understand how people can be turned off religion due to many reasons that are legitimate.
I'm a thinker and sifter when it comes to any faith or denomination. I reject the ideas or accept them based on my proper understanding of God and other things. Lots of human fingerprints and footprints were added especially political, pagan and social.
Excellent take on this subject sir Jacob.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your kind review, Sami.
j.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome sir Jacob.

[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!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your kind review, Dylan.
j.

[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.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

A definite blessing...thank you for your words, Mary.
j.

[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

[jacob erin-cilberto]

No human kindness, they just profess faith and think they are invincible...and above everyone else.
j.

[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!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and many of them.
Thank you, Lorry.
j.

[John the Baptist]

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

[jacob erin-cilberto]

WE got some learning and there went religion...the rise and fall.
j.

[Vol]

Jacob,
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

[jacob erin-cilberto]

How sad the perversion is.
Thank you for sharing these thoughts, Vol.
j.