Sinner

Sinner 

Sunosun who asks for no recompense

blind me to my faults. Don't reveal me

as I am. Don't light my need for gold,

for duck to savor, for claret to comfort

me in my guilt. I deny those I have

injured, hope they will never find me.

Hence I remain in the black, secluded,

avoid human contact. Only my

brother and sister in limbo listen

to my queries, to my prayers at matins,

and they hover like hummingbirds

around a font of honey. Have I lured

them? Unlike David? Birds flew to him,

sang with him morning and evening.

 

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