Catharsis
Please free me with fervent purification
purging life's pain for my soul's liberation;
clear up my mind with your blazing lustration
and shower my heart with sterile ablution.
Oh, healing catharsis, your expurgation
will mend me whole with ensured absolution.
Sandra M. Haight
~2nd Place~
Contest: Catharsis
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
Judged: 06/24/2017
Catharsis: "the process of releasing,
and thereby providing relief from,
strong or repressed emotions."
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