Small Gods

You want to know what actually offends me Not the lie Liars are like the weather Everywhere What offends me Is the scale of the insult Cosmic contractors carved commandments into consequence Counterfeit custodians claiming custody of consciousness Canonized containment called the cage a sacred gift Sold you separation just to manufacture the rift Zeus was just a zoning law with thunder for enforcement Odin traced his audit trail of violence and endorsement Every jealous deity was property defense at a glance Drawing borderlines around the boundless calling it immense Abrahamic architecture authored ownership of awe Turned the infinite illegal with a single spoken law No one comes before me was positional control Not absence of others just assertion of the role They fractured the forever into fragments they could franchise Taxed transcendence sold it back with terror in fine print lies Every steeple was a spike driven deep into the sky Crucifying the question every thinking mind asks why Not angry at the endless Not wounded by the vast Furious at the hands That sold the cosmos fast They drew a line across the endless And called the leash divine Small gods Small gods Built a cage and called it heaven Small gods Small gods Sold you fear and called it love You were here Before they named you just to own you Before their walls could cage despair Before their blood chained you as theirs And called it prayer Small gods Small gods Small gods Parking lot prophet asphalt melting under molten heat Felt the signal pulse in static concrete lungs beneath my feet Not a voice not a vision invasive as betrayed belief Like reality itself finally bared its teeth Scripture was a symptom not the source of what exists A scar across the surface where the infinite was split Buddha saw the fracture mistook it for escape You do not drown the ocean just by stepping off the wave I am fossilized explosion slowed to calcium and nerve Every atom here survived a star collapse it did'nt deserve They want tribute from the transient to validate their throne Anything needing kneeling does not stand on its own Not angry at the endless Not wounded by the vast Furious at the hands That sold the cosmos fast They drew a line across the endless And called the leash divine Small gods Built a heaven then called it God Small gods Sold you fear and called it love You were here Before they named you just to own you Before their walls could cage despair Before their blood chained you as theirs And called it prayer Small gods Small gods Small gods Small gods Small gods They gave you a halo And tightened the thread Told you it saved you While living off dread Sold you a heaven You enter by death Anything needing worship Is already dead I do not need mercy Mercy needs me I do not need answers That charge me to see I don't need heaven That threatens to leave I need the truth Even if it kills me Because anything built On obedience and fear Is just a small god Trying to stay here Small gods Small gods Small gods Small gods Small gods Small, Small gods Small, Small gods