''Breath, Life and God Abide''

When I was dewy-eyed I longed for sex,
a kind of sex fit for a male virgin
who lusts for the head of a fair maiden
regardless of what may then transpire next;
but my quest for this sex became a hex
and so I bedded a rough whore in sin 
instead and succumbed to the act often
like a sex-starved satyr or male T. rex!
“O God, wherefore have I spoiled my body!?”
I pined and now rued the loss of purity
and was aware of lapse from the inside
and the lessons of this true irony.
But so long as breath, life and God abide;
Redemption saves despite that I have died.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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April 21, 2018 at 2:39 PM
There is beauty in what the seeds of forgiveness can reap in a genuinely repentant soul. Hopeful peace.
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