Pleas of an Atheist

People tell me I’m crazy

For wasting away

People tell me I’m missing

What’s right in front of me

People tell me to forget all the logic

Everything that kept me so certain and strong

They say it won’t be easy, it’ll take so long

I need to open my heart and use my ears

Listen to them recite all my petty fears

Tell me I’m stupid, I need to look up

Look right into their eyes and see

Everything that I could eventually be

But no one has a clue how I feel

How these wounds will never heal

I believe what I think

And I say what I know

And I know that their words

Talk of other worlds

Heaven and Hell and this Earth alike

But move over and just hand me that mike

Stop trying to change who I am inside

Let me believe, don’t make me hide

I’m sick of all the tears I have cried

I’m sick of all the times I have lied

I want you to know, here and now,

That this is who I am, you don’t have to allow

I don’t believe in Jesus

I don’t believe in God

Anything else to me is fraud

Stop telling me I need to think this and that

Let me finally learn to live

For today, for the now, for myself

And maybe I can be happy again