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whole not holy

March 25, 2024
By bethanyvlines BRONZE, Parkside, Other
bethanyvlines BRONZE, Parkside, Other
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make me good again. whole not holy

take this self-mutilation for sacrifice

so when cracking at my core, i will reveal

sins from creational silence, slipping out

from beneath man’s bed; a child’s beast

so kiss the cross, lock it up in the light of fire

of and for. you would have burned me for this

and laughed at the smoke of salvation

my enslavement to sanctitude. i only meet myself

in death. i find it there; here,

where the door stays wide open

do not give me this to take it away


The author's comments:

first poem on here.


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