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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
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#985625 added June 29, 2020 at 11:57am
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"Church" and Not What I Need
‪In the church of broken hearts‬,
‪          soul-crushing amid them‬ --
‪          aisle-divided, humbled souls‬
‪cast eyes to directed idols‬,
‪daily relive shame‬:
‪          self-persecuting, yearning divinity‬,
         ‪bereft‬
‪of some forgiveness, but infer‬ --
‪think about what we have NOT done‬
‪to serve better‬.

‪My alms won’t salve everything‬.

You wear the white frock,
rise above the sanctuary
         in the nave instruct the naïve
sheltering eyes from distorted rays
oozing through stained, bubbled glass.

In this warm-scene-amphitheater,
we must forgive ourselves before you
         for impure thoughts and ignorance,
because we have not cracked
ancient code reprinted in your bibles,
         translated from dead words
to entreat me, them -- to inform confusion
we are never worthy, lost
without whatever baptismal water
you can spare on dry skin.

When I came through your pearly
barricade, I needed someone to hold --
         and still I seek, yearn to believe
there is some sanctity left for this
grubby, worthless one, labeled.

Your eyes are not what I need.

6.14.20
6.29.20 edited

33 lines, since you have not enough fingers and toes

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