Declaration of a Goddess by Lee Butler (Pennsylvania)

In the name of Jesus the Messiah,
I declare that I am born out of God,
Carved and painted with the envisionment of evil.
Black hair runs down my curves and red lips, sweet with sin,
Make me a victim of temptation and vengeful lust.

Father forgive me for the falsehood
Of desecration of holy marriage unions
And Adam's taste for the Apple-
The truth is choked in his throat
and in the blood of the first murder on record.
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In the name of Jesus the Messiah
I declare that I have never harmed a child-
My spirits find safety under my wings and wisdom in my fall.
I embrace the moon and it's four stages,
worship my dark, inner feminine energies, and Her divine manifests.

I denounce the lord,
Your sense of enslavement of wives,
The eternal damnation for a sense of freedom of any kind.
Murder the children for their father’s sin, but
I am left to cradle their little faces until their tormented souls find peace.

I strip you of your armor,
Untangle me from the web of lies,
And denounce my God.





Lee Butler (She/They) is an English-Creative Writing major at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They write for their school's newspaper and have been published in the undergraduate journal The Critical Point and the online magazine, Underscore_Magizine. Lee aspires to write about nature through the lens of the human experience.