Finding religion
Is the penultimate scene
To happiness
Adjacent to nature
Sitting across from family
Perpendicular to love
Stands my religious experience
My life’s stigmata
Have been labyrinthine in their telling
Of what my path may entail
Of what I would have to endure
To look my religion in the eyes
And profess my loyalty
What I gave to experience religion
Was my whole self
A daily quota of pieces of me
Given to a cause greater than the self
Who am I?
Defined
A sister
A daughter
A cousin
A woman
A pagan through and through
And no one can take that away from me