My Sin

  by M. L. Liebler

   If I know my angels,

   I know what they would say

   --Joe Henry

   He came to me

   In a whisky-blue dream

   In midtown Manhattan.

   He wasn't angry anymore.

   He seemed happy to find

   Me again, my old self.

   Picking up his ghost guitar,

   He played me a new song.

   He played it sweet and innocent.

   As if he were the world's only child,

   His whole future ahead,

   No pain hidden in that past.

   In some undeserved way, I felt

   As though he had forgiven me

   For the hurtfulness of my words.

   His kindness to me was more

   Genuine than all of my love could

   Ever have been toward him.

   In my dream, I found myself running

   Back and forth in search of forgiveness,

   In search of something greater.

   But each time I was returned

   To wander out my sin in prayer--

   The sleepless turmoil of my penance

   Revealed and served



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