"God I'm sorry I ate your apple"

an honest expression of grace

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I did it--it's my responsibility

absolve my children of a debacle

ensuing from their hidden agenda

Lead me on to the invisible star

Why why why does it even matter?

I flushed myself into this place

Honesty would have led elsewhere

& I avoided he whose path I took

steal me back into your embraces

& we'll carry her across deserts

on our exposed sun scorched back

as they see they accept our help

our one-ness no longer threatens

projecting the irony-based guilt

let their magic be in the closet

beaming out into its own essence

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Emily B]

I tell people this title stalked me when you first came to the cafe. And it did, I could no more hide from your honest expression of grace than i could stop breathing. I tell people when I introduce them to words like these that I've probably left a dozen reviews. I exaggerate a little sometimes. But I will get there eventually.

[Collect-Eye]

Thank you both for these compliments and insights. your perspective means more than I can express in words, and the irony of that last statement is not lost on me.

[Leah Maldonado]

Amazing. It was very insightful, and lucid...I really liked it. It's so nice to read poems like this. Most of them tend to follow the abab rhyme (rhymes!) and are written by young kids trying to be wise. But you, you have wisdom. Loved it
Leah

Why why why does it even matter?

I flushed myself into this place

[Emily B]

I don't guess I believed your comment, "An honest expression of grace." And so, I came and read the words. Truer words were never spoken. I apologize for doubting.