Preferring One Religion Over Another

I prefer one religion over another

in America I can choose where and whether I go 

to services and how I practice 

my belief and connection to the universe

I prefer to do it my way

I am free to roam the streets

to drive to a synagogue

or a temple or a church 

for whatever events I want

I am not always safe 

the streets and neighborhoods where I go

are sometimes filled with hate

against me because of how I chose to see

the universe here in America

I am free nonetheless

I do not sit on death row in Alabama

or in a woman's womb

wrapped in my freedom I wonder 

why everyone doesn't have the right

the freedom to practice as we wish

letting other's do the same

© Kimberly Burnham

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Kimberly is a brain health expert and poet. Kimberly's 2019 project is world peace / inner peace with her recently published book, Awakenings: Peace Dictionary, Language and the Mind, a Daily Brain Health Program.