as a child she loved going to church
at the age of five years
she said she was going to be a nun
when she grew up
her parents thought she was a saint
she seemed incredibly holy for a child
she memorized the Bible at age twelve
and prayed hours every day
at age eighteen she became a fanatic
reciting prayers and Bible verses all day
at age twenty-one she started a cult
that eventually descended into blasphemy
when she convinced her followers
she was Jesus Christ come again
in a new female version of the son of God
three years later she hung herself to death
from a ten foot tall wooden cross
in the main hall of worship
she left a long detailed note
that read like Jesus she would
rise from the dead in three days
as proof of her anointed Divinity
the followers kept her corpse
in a casket in the hall of worship
they held nightly vigils praying and
awaiting for her return from the dead
weeks past without her resurrection
she remained dead and her cult disbanded
but locals claim she came back as a ghost
that haunts the mansion where she lived
bob boyd