out from the closet of belief

the once-believer in “god”
had been wallowing in the feeling of being all alone
in a world in which every contact that they had
was based on a work of fiction full of characters
on the basis of whom
millions throughout history
have sacrificed their lives
in order to get a reward
be it the myth of “heaven”
or 72 virgins---
this once-believer dragged along these dogmas
that had been beat into their head since birth
through their early adolescence &
over time, as they became educated, finding a wonderful interest in the
world, questioning all things,
they started to see all the hogwash
for what it really is &
the freeing loss of faith
liberated another.

but for some reason,
this latent nonbeliever has been wearing the mask of jesusfreak, mosespunk
or muhammadchump for some time now,
allowing all their family members & their friends to find comfort
in the complacence of no change whatsoever
to be found in the way they had been raised
to be found in the town in which they grew up
or to be found in the mantras by which they supposedly lived their lives---
and all had been tranquil
neath’ the tower of lies by which
said nonbeliever in disguise
lived out their days.

oh but how those goddamned Atheists
would not stop yammering away---
with their Darwin & their Evolution & their
want to live in the reality of a world in which
human beings take responsibility for the lives that they lead
without pretending as if some deity was watching
without pretending as if some deity was going to come &
save them---
and over the span of this latent nonbeliever’s life
sooner than later, the voice of those who are sick & tired of a world
churning & bubbling in a chaos produced by those
theists, deists & just plain morons,
came to the forefront.

with megaphones in hand
they march today to the capital
voicing their complaints &
asserting themselves as a people who will not be ignored,
as a people who have been kept silent for way too long,
as a people who have come to stand
where so many maniacs have stood before
pronouncing their myths & then
marching off to kill another who doesn’t believe in the myth that
they do.

today, the masked nonbeliever knows that they are no longer alone,
because of people like Richard Dawkins who have stood up against a world
that thrives on lunacy,
wanting to instead rely on facts, evidence, and the real conclusions drawn from
the scientific method & investigative processes---
the masked nonbeliever
no longer needs to hide &
they get on a bus, or a plane,
or they just plain drive to DC today
in order to find community with those
that have had enough of this bullshit,
making that first important public step
to be facebooked & tweeted & covered by as many media outlets
that are not still bent over the table
getting raped by the religious
who would love for all of our mouths to still be closed
who would love for us all to be burning at the stake
as if it was still the
middle ages.

*if only Christopher Hitchens could still be here to witness it.