Outcasts

I took in deep raspy breaths as I ran. My long purple cloak dragged on the soft earth behind me as I swiftly moved throughout the forest. My train tore as gnarled branches reached out and snagged it from behind. My hood was pulled far over my eyes as I ran through the moonlight. It had been a last minute decision to leave...to run....I had withstood so much throughout the years it was possible that I could go on for longer but I refused to wait around and see if my hypothesis was correct. I had stayed for such a long time silently enduring allowing the others I cared about to escape first. After all they mattered more then I did anyways. But finally after they had all quietly disappeared it was my time....finally my time to run from all of the pain and persecution I had before endured....We all had endured. It wasn't right and it wasn't fair but they didn't care about us. They considered us unworthy... childlike... and ignorant. They thought of us like animals not people. Because of who we are and what we believe in our whole family was put to shame and torment as was everyone like us. When we refused to change what we believe we became outcasts. No one cared about us. We lost our position...our homes....our possessions...but we did not loose our Faith...our Hope...and our Trust...We lost all material things....everything that was thought to be important to us. But even through it all we held on to our Morals...our Family...and our Beliefs. When people would strike us down we would repay them in kindness...when we were mocked....we showed everyone love...But finally the day came for us to escape we were all set free! The thing that made us captives set us free. Our BELIEF in the one who laid down His life for us made everyone hate us....Our BELIEF in the one who laid down his life for us set us free.......

"We will Overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony everyone OVERCOME"
by Desperation Band

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