I didn’t get it when I was a kid.
I still don’t understand or recognize
a culture that insists I act as bid
by portions of a book that sanctifies
barbarity, selectively ignored,
composed by no one holy to advise,
and edited by others to afford
imperious behavior and disguise.

Demanding every pregnancy proceed,
without a care how fare they after birth,
is clearly wrong. No deity decreed
it so, I know, within or over Earth.
Why do we speak? I’m starting to believe
our kind developed language to deceive.