I always wanted to be a priest of the world

Disclaimer: A lot of poetry cannot be taken too literally. I for one, am very glad to be a Christian and do believe that the church can have positive effect on the world. But, there is a constant struggle that I do go through. It's the balance of how much of the world we can have... This is what this poem is essentially about. It's not about hating my parents faith or my faith, even.  I don't feel like I should apologize at all, but I just wanted to clear the air. 

I always wanted to be a priest of the world

Oh curse my red-neck roots, that curse my sheer desire

I do not want to be associated with vile theology and

Politicial movement associated with my name.

I want to lead a confessional, an open world where

People come to my side, and drink the communion

Wine of the Sabbath, freely till we are completely drunk

Blessing the body, of our freedom and liberating

The masses with sweet beautiful liturgies of Eliot,

Ginsberg, Auden, and Hardy- till we understand the scripture

Despite, the ignorance of my neighbors that do

not have a clue about what I am proposing they would

agree if they saw the truth, of the demon box they listen to.

I’d fill the fount, with Mountain Dew and wire the people

To understand where our consumerism came from,

maybe they’d understand it better instead of cursing it.

If only I could erase the roots, and be of all this noble stock

But, I come from this- so I might as well try to embrace and

do not take my oath of celibacy of religious  and conservative thought.