Confessional

by Aurea Day

 

show me the ledger of transgressions that I’ve authored

  confessed    but have not been forgiven for according

to the man that tells me my safety is sinful    why does

he possess a divine capacity we are not allowed to access?



               when you walk past a mirror do you imagine it’s

                   a portal    a way for god to keep an eye on you?

               I wonder when I stopped pretending there was

               always a camera watching me    the guilt we hold



                              in our shoulders in our hands    it coats our skin

                              like syrup be sweet with me and stand in the

                              rain for however long it takes    you and I can

                              baptize each other    new believer I’ll teach you



               what it’s like to feel clean again    what it’s like to

               pray    shall we learn to murmur our own names

               in worship?   soft-spoken saint    hard-hearted

               sinner of the worst breed    we can make some



new thing our own    if I bend to drag the wet cloth

   across your feet could we be disciples?    what I’m

trying to tell you is    I would remake the world if it

meant we could stay here in the shower together

 





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