Living a Religion

Living a Religion

By Rajul Tiwari

So much for the species who follows the dark,
we all are born, but to sport a lifelong mark...
We study, symbolise, feel, and breathe through it,
breads, braids, beards and beads, everything to woo it...

We make Gods who created us,
adopt another for comfort and killing one which originated us...
The fact remains the same, we need one to exist,
and life becomes a journey into this thick mist...

Playfully, we declare secularism,
tell me about one, who is out of this prism...
We fight, terrorise and murder for them,
we use them in the name of trying harder for them...

Still the order so much charms us,
it throbs in idols, vibrates in prayers, and unusual alarms us...
What is more unusual than us?
why do we need these books to fan us?

Believe me Godless is better than Heartless,
and Headless is better than Soulless...
You keep finding your "self" in religion,
instead of living for a "selfless" reason...

For a moment pretend that you are God,
just for a moment take responsibility with a concerning nod...
For a moment realise the powers in you,
and use them to guard the little compassion that flowers in you...

I am not asking to make yourself a zombie,
and parade this earth in directionless feeding frenzy...

Let us all "Protect" and "Preserve" and live for this doctrine,
and together wash this social toxin...

We are not living a religion but are drowning in it,
these roads are becoming whirlwind and dead souls are howling in it...
Let us leave our Gods alone, and for once stand on our feet,
show our Belief, that we are worth our meat...