Pilgrimage of an Atheist

They tossed an atheist
In the fire of theists
Broke his legs and made him kneel
He bowed, He Knelt

With his broken back
with tears in his eyes
he asked
where is god? where is god?

They slammed his face
on their deity's legs
he asked again, where is god?
and yes, his nose was bleeding

You are a non believer, you! Damn You!
said them all, echoing were the voices
and deafening was their noise

Thats what I am, He smiled,
and screamed
in your ocean of sanity I am the wild!
slit my wrists and hammer my bones!
make my veins bleed and dry up
let this bloodshed of mine make you merry
for, this universe needs humans
more than it needs your deity

He raised his bloody arms and cried
"I have traveled this universe many time,
with my imagination and my metaphors
found countless inspirations"
"and when fear burns my heart I remember them all"

Why should I believe a forced thought?
can I not be what I always was?
My mothers child, lover of this world, Thats all I ever was.
should I bow down for something ever
which is not even close to fragments of my imagination?
said he

and he bleed and bleed and bleed
and he cried and cried and cried
soon his voices were diluted
and everything he was, was lost.
his body, shattered
his arms, broken
his hope, hammered
and his life, gone, forever