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Don't have a title for this piece yet, it's really just a lost of thoughts that have been tossed around in my head lately. I have a lot of pieces similar to this one floating around my computer, though with different subject matter, and most with more rhyme. How can it be made better? What do I need corrected?

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Explain to me again,
why do you make sense,
to everyone but me?
They say it's in a book,
written by a god,
but I fail to believe,
that god is what you say.
Because he gives you a set of rules,
that he says he doesn't have to follow.
Tells you to be a way,
that he need not concern himself to be.
To claim that god to be merciful,
the one who sends the innocent to hell,
is a sin in and of its self.
Explain to me,
why he should send my friends to hell?

You hide like a fool,
behind that book of yours.
Have you read it my friend,
what does it say of me?
I would but help you into the light,
open your eyes to knowledge…
that what your book hides you from.
You cling to ignorance as your lover,
you sing the hymns of hopelessness,
supposing it will keep you from your greatest of fears.
And you would have me in the same position as your own.

You'd rather remain in ignorance,
hide so confidently behind your mask of a fool.
You think you make so much sense,
but that's only because you've never looked through anyone's eyes,
but your own.
All I seek is truth,
all I seek is sense,
I seek certainty…
that which my life has had so little of.
Maybe I'm wrong,
and maybe I'm forever damned to the place you call hell,
but I'd rather be happy than right any day.
What's it worth to be right,
if it goes against everything you believe in?
Well now, I've always liked to think I'm not as shallow as that.

You claim these days for a god,
these days that were meant for other gods,
not so different from your own.
You mean well,
and yet you often cause so much harm.
You run into problems,
when you believe you're the only one who's right.
The wise question their beliefs,
the wise find their errors and correct them.
All you do is make arguments that have been previously proven ridiculous,
previously proven to only make sense to the brainless.
I'd hoped you weren't so dense,
oh but faith has blinded you to reason.

I've tried to believe,
it is a fairy-tale I'd have gladly taken in,
but any time I've ever tried I could only see the lies.
Once I was as blind as yourself,
and that's a state of mind I can never regress to.
That's a state of mind some never get away from.
Sure it serves its purpose,
its given people hope,
its given people happiness…
but then again its taken lives,
its broken families,
its broken nations,
and all in the name of a god.
Sure it serves its purpose,
but it's of no use to me.

Once upon a time,
I gave up my ideals for something I didn't believe.
The cult mentality is a hard thing to escape,
but I managed to get free.
False hopes just aren't for me,
I'd rather find the truth,
and you can't do that with a biased point of view.
I'm glad it works for you,
I hope it gets you somewhere in the life you're living.
You'd tell me your path's the harder one,
but I'd have to disagree,
it's not an easy thing,
to go against years of dogma.
I'm not sorry that I won't take your word for it,
blind faith was never my thing.