Confessional Truth

Confessional Truth Starting with guilty admission A body laying there innocent, unprotected Morality conspires To seek its agenda Blackmail and blueprint the truth In description and doubt With promises for the future Armed with truth The body becomes an example An illustration Knotted in its slavery Personal in its shame Covering layer upon layer of promises Not to offend To put dirty things aside To embrace law With its solemn guarantee Its Christian pronunciation To hide beneath the scourge of truth Using a shimmering shield to combat Enemies of mind Enemies of sticky, listless thought And all uncertain courses down the river To embark on the great damming project To this point you will go And no further