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TITLE: Fa�ade of Righteousness | Previous Challenge Entry
By Benjamin Graber
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Chasing a façade?
What if all your passion
Is just pretty wrapping
Over an ugly lie?
What if all you believed
Was just a castle
Of fairy tales
Built to make yourself look good?
And when you thought
You were nearer God
Than all the world—
It was at that moment
You were closest to Hell?
I had memorized my Bible
From cover
To cover,
And knew it better
Than my own heart…
I was the best
In all the world:
More holy than David,
More righteous than Noah,
More passionate than Moses…
With fire and brimstone
I spent my life fighting
The greatest lie from the pits of Hell:
The power of a false prophet
Who broke the Bible,
And taught others to do so as well…
We had the words of God!
Those who break
From the strain
Must be broken—
Must die!
As the shepherd of the flock
It was my duty
To do the breaking:
To smash the lies
To shatter the dreams
To crush the hopes,
All for the will of God,
To protect the sheep.
And with that passion
Burning in my heart
I took the road
To Damascus.
It was on the way
The façade was revealed,
The lie was unwrapped,
The fairy tales came tumbling down,
And I saw
Just how close I was to Hell…
“Oh!”
“It’s you!!!”
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Personally I think it would have been more powerful without the 'Oh, It's you' at the end.
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