{"sf1_id":269002,"sf2_id":"r17KXAB1","title":"God Told Me to Love","author":"Iaran","words":203,"posted_at":"2011-07-19T05:19:00.000Z","tags":["Angst","Dark","Depression","Emotion","God","Other","Poem","Poetry","anxiety","empathy","fur","furries","life","stress","sympathy"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/269002-god-told-me-to-love","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/r17KXAB1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/08/38/0838e018-c7e0-4682-8e34-0a065a2c15dd","description":"","content":"God Told Me to Love  \nBy Iaran Frye-Carter\n\nA man at our safe bunker lights one up  \nSo I picked him apart  \n  \nI don't live off a deadly crutch  \nOr self-mutilate to escape  \nBut grasping this seems a feat  \nThat's just too much to take  \nSeeing sorry faces, scarred and soiled  \nPart of me falls cold  \nGod told me to give  \nBut there's nothing they want I hold  \n  \nI enter the minds of others  \nTo see what makes them run  \nTo see if they truly feel the same  \nJust to know we're one  \nThese tiny lives in bigger pictures  \nDeception, dejection by fate  \nGod told me to understand  \nThe concept that I relate  \n  \nInside our sanctuary  \nIt's gremlins times two  \nFrom the time emotions are dished out  \nTo where they're received and through  \nA concept of such simplicity  \nA fox in a box under locks  \nGod told me to expand horizons  \nIt's beyond that, and it shocks  \n  \nAverage Joe goes to work  \nPoor Steve can't pay his fine  \nAnd Vanessa, a wolf with two jobs  \nJust doesn't have the time  \nThe tears run down their faces  \nNo wonder I'm so depressed  \nGod told me to love  \nSo I outdid the request\n\n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;  \n  \n\n"}