No Return Visit

You were losing your faith.
Not in a dramatic, defiant way—
but slowly, question by question.
You studied harder than anyone told you to.
You read beyond the 20 safe scriptures.
And the more you read, the more questions you had.
The thing that doesn’t have to explain itself. The system’s favored child. What the world is built for—and what it refuses to name.
You were losing your faith.
Not in a dramatic, defiant way—
but slowly, question by question.
You studied harder than anyone told you to.
You read beyond the 20 safe scriptures.
And the more you read, the more questions you had.