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- Gemini
- 2020-06-19
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- the cathedral's bells ring
- horseshoe mounted above the doorframe
- from the pastor's mouth drip words:
- "confess and you shall be made whole"
- you stand at the pulpit
- and proclaim to the congregation
- how holy you are,
- that you have rescinded control
- baptized in the claps,
- reborn as a shriveled
- ghost of who you once were:
- a person without a soul
- bloat as original sin
- that one needs to be absolved of,
- leaving behind the colors and joys
- beyond these gated walls
- "out yonder lives the devil
- with his malice and malware and pain;
- 'tis an illusion that, beyond the wiles,
- he helps those alive stand tall"
- one in a sea of faceless
- made faceless yourself
- give your soul to the gods
- put your heart on the shelf
- a landscape of white
- and a monotone hum
- to spill your own blood
- earns a trip straight to hell
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- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander
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