Guilt

Disgrace shame sin
A dozen years of penance
A single malefic act
Made in your name
Without your consent
Without your knowledge
Ultimatly driving me
d
o
w
n
Into febrile despair.

Attritional
Penitent
Contrite
Compunctious
I'm sorry

Sorrow words and sorrow voice
A little boy smile
Not quite enough
to assuage the wound

Baby bathwater and me
Throw it all out
Simplify
Simplify
Simplify
A complication a solution
A direction a destination
Beginning or end
Salvation
Destruction
AnnihilationBurnt black
and twisted

The tears of yesterday
Washed away
By the tears of tomorrow