Would you still believe

Just for a moment in time

If we could join in mind

At an impossible perspective

If things weren’t considered

So sacrilegious

What if it weren’t true

Would you change what you do?

Would you still believe

If although blood fall to the ground

If that torture rack didn’t end that life

If there were no EKGs to verify a thing

As soon as the crowd dispersed

Released those nails in victory

What if you can live after that

Would you change what you do?

Would you still believe

If at that time people were buried alive

And the reason for not “burying” is that

Breath still breathes under blood and grief

And that security wasn’t like today

No one really monitored the same way

What if it were already opened and victory escaped

Would you change what you do?

Would you still believe

If you knew he knew it too

And he would have to endure punishment

Endlessly and have faith to see it through

Lash, after lash, no man hath endured

Expecting salvation for generations yet to come

What if it were you

What it change what you do?

Would you still believe

If what hides in mystery

An entire city was built

To protect a single belief

That a person can transcend yet live eternally

Worship continually under an exaggerated belief

What if there was another way

What it change what you do?

Would you still believe

After seeing all the years past

Witnessed his name used out of context

To murder, ridicule, and prevent evolution

Slowing down the human progress

For a tithe, a prayer or less

What if you could speak to God directly

What it change what you do?