Silly me—  
I believed that  
you Christian leaders, you,  
the ones that I knew,  
were different than those others.  

You would never  
cover up  
a scandal or abuse.  

No, not the Christian leaders I knew.  

Silly me,  
to believe such  
hopeful things—  
when I can see even those  
Christian leaders  
in red hats  
have built their stages  
on perverse facts-  
of abuse and ****  
and scandals too.  

Silly me, who thought they  
were different than you.