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By Allen Clupny
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I’ve sinned again, though less frequent than before.
I wish that made me feel better…But it doesn’t.
This is a new wound, to bad it’s not my flesh.
It would hurt less and in time, I would forget.
I wanted to subdue it.
I hoped I could.
It has lingered for such a long time…
I remember when it started.
Oh, the end of innocence!
Unbelievable knowledge gained.
Truth that both compelled and repulsed.
Youth unable to comprehend the lost and found.
You’re never told the cost.
The price of foolishness is too strange for the innocent.
Soon it is part of you.
Not just a habit, a spastic appendage.
A thing to be accepted…and rejected.
Again and again…once again.
I wish for innocence.
To be clean and unscarred.
To breathe in unsullied emotional air.
Pine. Yes. That is what I hope to smell one day.
I hope heaven smells like pine.
I wish forgiveness did.
For now though, I am reminded of an end.
The moment when innocence was lost.
And this new wound? To bad it’s not my flesh,
It would hurt less and in time, I would forget.
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