IN BETWEEN DRAGS (Excerpt from Instruction Guide On How To Be A Superhero) -© 2012, 2015 “Can I See Or Am I Envisioned?”

                                          IN                                                              
                           BETWEEN
                           DRAGS
Mandatory Church Service:
                                      “So, how much time do we have?
                                      “Oh, about five minutes.” We sat in the canopy ashing our drags in the large cigarette sand bucketed ashtray. This is our pre-chosen congregation before we have to go into the forced congregation.
          I still just listen and take mental notes. Remaining in denial that my life has come to living in a brainwashed Christian homeless shelter. I’m afraid that the other tenants will rub off on me and I’ll be restricted like them to this place. The conversations are so predictable, and are always laced with profanity. Conversations like: about that fine lady, criticizing one another, talking about the staff, the best cons to pull, and the stern bosses.
          Yea, they gotta’ talk all that sin talk in order to maintain their identity before it gets taken away by all that “God talk.”
          Moments later we’re in one of the preachy rooms singing the chorus “I know my God is real and nothing can change how I feel. I give him my worship and I always will because I know that God is real.” Follows the verse “Yahweh, the great I am God of our fathers, God of Abraham. I can believe there is no other God. I will be trusting him no matter what.” I wondered what did ‘Yahweh, the great I am’ mean?
          Well, there ain’t no getting around it. I can’t leave, can’t escape. Damn-I been here before questioning my motives “Is it really that bad or is that me playing tricks on myself justifying the next drag?” I don’t know. But I’ll know for sure after smoking that cigarette.
          I didn’t come out my mums with a cigarette in my mouth. (excerpt from

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