Caren Krutsinger Poet Prose Poetry

I Am a Sinner

Once at church I started the children’s chat by saying I am a sinner.
The whole church started clapping.
I was so startled, I forgot my lesson.
To cover up this fact I started saying all the things I had ever done to sin.
The congregation got extremely quiet.
Apparently being a sinner is okay but revealing all the ways you are one is not okay.
It was a fun church, full of party animal people.
They loved me.
I loved them but I never fully went back to the same person
Because now they saw me in a different light.
After a while I stopped going
to that church
for I had revealed
way too much….

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Rhona Mcferran January 23, 2020 at 2:52 PM "Apparently being a sinner is okay but revealing all the ways you are one is not okay." Oh yes, I've been there too!! ;D Caren Krutsinger January 24, 2020 at 5:57 AM I have to say when you decide to be "true" and "open" there is a limit that you are not fully aware of until it is too late.