Wednesday, March 11, 2020

The burning grounds

The burning grounds                                                                                 

As the fabric unravels, the differences laid bare
between the veils of egoism

and humility’s threadbare coat,
I’m painfully aware at every turn

of my habitual (quite human) culpability,
my unforced, everyday defilements of love,

becoming ever more wise to myself and penitent
yet, at each candid moment,

the shame is tinged with joy and relief –
where transgressions once passed unnoticed  

each now is being led onto the burning grounds,
returned to the nothingness they are and always were.

O child of God, part of the inducement of surrender
is the abandonment of guilt and remorse.

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