Nothing seems to lock a box
and throw away the key
like religion.

Who makes the rules?
God?
Whose version of God?

Who writes the holy texts?
Who interprets them?
Who gets to decide what is and isn’t sin?

What is sin, anyway?
If it’s a sin to hurt another,
shaming is a sin.
Shame destroys.

Who says it’s wrong to question God?
God’s existence?
Heaven and hell?
To question anything?

If there’s only one right way to heaven,
why are there so many different roads
and road maps?
Draw your own damn map!

Don’t get locked in to someone else’s prison
of beliefs, someone else’s definition
of good, bad, holy, unholy.
Seek your own truth.

Love and compassion
are the only holy texts
you need.