Plague

Chariots of fire.
Promised to me
if I read the Bible
and prayed. 

No song covers
could fake the
atheism with which 
I was born. 

And I retreat
to retire and wither
away with this
Disease I was
given.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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