Excerpts From A Book I'll Never Write

Unholy

A bible and a crumpled sheet
This is no place where they come to worship
their gods

There is no god in this room

A prayer in between breath hitched
Higher beings, higher ceilings
Do you believe?

(I do
not)

Clasped hands, burning skin
Please forgive me for i have sinned

In the name of The Merciful—

—and the Holy Spirit

You were tempted
I took the bite

Here, heaven is a four-walls
And hell is just on the front door

Please
Please
Please

Just as Eve was begging to stay in Eden
with Adam and the forbidden fruit half-bitten

Please
Please
Please

And so I pleaded

(Recite my poetry with that godly tongue of yours)