A Giant Leap Out of the Box!

I was still a young child then,

It was around this time when

They put me in a ‘religious’ box

And sealed it with heavy padlocks.

There I stayed, out of faith and fear,

For a very long time, year after year,

Till when, at last, I came to know

That it just didn't have to be so.

In that box I refused any more to stay,

I just couldn’t carry on the same way,

I thought I might even turn mad,

Yes, it really was all that bad!

If I remained, I feared I’d suffocate,

So, I decided I must change my fate.

(Though this to me they had told:

‘You must stay here till you are old,

And it’s in this box that you must die,

Believe what we say, don’t ask why.’)

Then, at last, one day I hit upon a plan:

I said, 'If I want to be free, I truly can.'

I stood up and pushed off the heavy lid

Of the box in which I had for so long hid.

(It was so easy, I could hardly believe

Why this plan I didn’t before conceive!)

And then, I took a mighty, giant leap

(In relating this, tears of joy I weep!)

And from that odious, dark and dingy place,

I landed straight in God’s warm embrace!

And oh what joy and peace I got to meet,

Being freed from years of religious deceit!