Religious and Holy

You cultivate
The kind of man
Who is crass and demeaning
And you call your method
Religious and holy
While you shove me to the back of the sanctuary
Behind a wall
And silence my prayers
To Gd
Making it a constant fight
To be part of this community
With any kind of integrity

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