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Tribute to a discarded trowel

Judas! They call me,
the betrayer of men
A heretic, a heathen, a whore.
I am no traitor! I plead.
I even now the serpentine coils are descending.
My words were weak and wanton
and the path I chose was wanting.
But you, you meant to bury your crimes
in my wounds
and bid me sumit to your brand:
Coward.
But I was not meant to tread here,
nor content in my Creator to suffer the persecution
of this too too sullied flesh.
So I fled, on bloodied soles into such burning redemption
as might stave off the final fatal chill.
I, I am forsaken
huddling amongst the embers of my odious effigy and
praying for the warmth to return.
My lord,
why have you forsaken this child.
who begged your guidance and forgiveness,
who, driven by the passion of a thousand prophets
landed in such impiety?
Eli, Eli.
You heard me once, but now your counsel is out-thundered
by the whispers of my fellow damned,
whose boldness is their claim to grace,
who banished me to this mire
while not once, nor ten times but
every moment of every dawn and dusk,
I implored you to embrace or end me.
For thine is the power and the glory.
Are my scars not etched as gravely
nor my name as lovingly crafted by yours hands to merit reprieve?
Is my love of man so inept that to soften your sentence would
rend the heavens beyond repair?
What elevates my recreancy beyond the indulgence of my peers
while murderers and thieves are cheered unto your bosom,
and my denouncers revel in their righteousness with empty praises
of your hollow name?
Even Satan is loathe to ingest me, and no restitution withers
on his lips.
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