What would they do if I killed myself in a church?

If I took my tie

And hung myself from the rafters

Would they take my body

And place it upon the cross

Just to call me Jesus?

What would they do if I killed myself in a church?

If I slit my wrists on the altar

Would they pour my blood

Into those golden goblets

And call it wine?

What would they do if I killed myself in a church?

If I buried myself in Bibles

And let the guilt of my sins press me flat

Would they take the pieces of my body

And break me like bread at communion?

What would they do if I killed myself in a church?

If I drowned myself in the stoup

The holy water exorcising the air from my lungs

Would they ring me out flat

And lay me across the priest’s shoulders like a stole?

What would they do if I killed myself in a church?

Would they work me into a sermon

And paint my struggles as god’s trails

My death as god’s justice

Would they write me as a suicide sermon?