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<center>I</center>
<center>The candles light easily</center>
<center>One</center>
<center>Two</center>
<center>Three </center>
<center>Four</center>
<center>The flames look like dancers</center>
<center>[[No one will believe you]]</center><center>II</center>
<center>The flames go out quietly</center>
<center>One</center>
<center>Two</center>
<center>Three </center>
<center>Four</center>
<center>It seems a crime to snuff out what is alive</center>
<center>The smoke burns your nostrils</center>
<center>[[No one will listen to you]]</center><center>III</center>
<center>The sacristy is cold</center>
<center>Human hands should be warm</center>
<center>But HIS are colder</center>
<center>What sort of shepherd </center>
<center>Lets HIS flock wander?</center>
<center>[[Don’t move, don’t cry]]</center>
<center>IV</center>
<center>The alb is gone </center>
<center>And you feel shivers</center>
<center>The buttons scream as </center>
<center>They are undone</center>
<center>[[Have faith child]]</center><center>V</center>
<center>The cassock is gone</center>
<center>And you see your breath</center>
<center>As it leaves</center>
<center>HIM</center>
<center>The candle is watching</center>
<center>[[No one will know]]</center><center>VI</center>
<center>Your name is </center>
<center>Christ-bearer</center>
<center>And you bear His wax</center>
<center>On your bare back</center>
<center>[[It is not a sin]]</center><center>VII</center>
<center>A rite is said</center>
<center>You begin to change</center>
<center>Your tabernacle rots</center>
<center>And you lie exposed</center>
<center>[[Amen]]</center><center>VIII</center>
<center>Accipite et manducate ex hoc omnes</center>
<center>hoc est enim Corpus meum</center>
<center>quod pro vobis tradetur.</center>
<center>HIS lips are cold</center>
<center>[[Amen->I'm sorry]]</center><center>IX</center>
<center>Accipite et bibite ex eo omnes</center>
<center>hic est enim calix Sanguinis </center>
<center>mei novi et aeterni testamenti</center>
<center>Yours are on fire</center>
<center>[[Amen->it won't happen again father]]</center><center>X</center>
<center>HE wanders far afield</center>
<center>Yet always returns</center>
<center>To the place </center>
<center>HE has no right to be</center>
<center>[[…]]</center><center>XI</center>
<center>The oil which stains HIS hands</center>
<center>Is desecrated a second time</center>
<center>Your name is Christ-bearer</center>
<center>And you bear Him and His cross</center>
<center>[[Relax]]</center><center>XII</center>
<center>Where is the boy</center>
<center>That came in to thee this day?</center>
<center>Bring him out out us</center>
<center>That we may know him</center>
<center>[[RELAX]]</center><center>XIII </center>
<center>HE knew you</center>
<center>Better than you knew yourself</center>
<center>You were too young to know better</center>
<center>[[…->it hurt like hell]]</center><center>XIV</center>
<center>Hoc facite in meam commemorationem.</center>
<center>Your blood spills impotently</center>
<center>To the floor</center>
<center>Your body remains uneaten</center>
<center>And you are forgotten,</center>
<center>unfulfilled</center>
<center>[[Amen->your will be done]]</center>
<center>XV</center>
<center>Your name is nightjar</center>
<center>You have long since forgotten HIS</center>
<center>But you cannot forget</center>
<center>The cross on your back</center>
<center>[[…->some memories won't die]]</center>
<center>XVI</center>
<center>HE is silent now</center>
<center>A moment spent ashamed</center>
<center>A moment passed</center>
<center>A moment repeated</center>
<center>[[Again and again]]</center><center>XVII </center>
<center>You blame yourself </center>
<center>For not stopping it</center>
<center>For not telling</center>
<center>But what is there to tell?</center>
<center>[[But fragments and prayers]]</center>
<center>XVIII</center>
<center>You’ve told now</center>
<center>It was the hardest thing you’ve done</center>
<center>And it was not enough</center>
<center>Your face burns in the sun</center>
<center>And you cannot forgive</center>
<center>[[yourself]]</center><center>The End</center><<cacheaudio "foreboding" "https://soundimage.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Closing-In_Looping.mp3">>
<center>This poem is not for the faint of heart. Do not read it lightly.</center>
<center>[[next]]</center><<audio "foreboding" play loop>>
<center>Absolution</center>
<center>By Lilith Langley</center>
<center>[[Start]]</center>