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Time after time, the thief struck, 
but I could never report a loss.
Tangibles were not taken.

I knew the identity of the perpetrator
but couldn't ask for ordinary justice.
This was no ordinary criminal.

This deceiver led me down 
paths of promise to find fulfillment . . . 
for the flesh was weak.
Each time, I paid a fee,
a degree of my self-respect,
joy, and peace of mind.

How could the sincere youth 
who invited Jesus into her heart 
at age 14 be acting so--lost?

Internal thieves are the hardest to defeat.
Only God could help me.
I prayed--truly believing.
Over time, He banished the deceiver, 
my desire for what He's forbidden,
and nurtured the better part of me.

Sins, though forgiven, have consequences.
He left a reminder,
a scar in my memory,
to keep me from ever again
becoming what I once was.



Date: March 25, 2019
Contest Title: Strength Thru Adversity
Sponsor: Gregory R. Barden

Placed third in Lu Loo's Beautiful Scars contest in November 2015

May 28, 2019, entered in Anthony Slausin's Truth Poetry Contest

April 6, 2021, entered in Brian Strand's All Yours (April 7) contest

January 4, 2023
Revealing Your Soul and Other Tension Poetry Contest    Placed 2nd
Sponsor: Sotto Poet

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