#40 

I am twisted words

A life of falling

Falling to be faster

Bowing to be higher

Weeping to be happy

Repentance

An expectation of the divine

Humanity's gift

When I twist words, they become me

When others twist words, they bend me to believe

To break me

When He untwists words, I become them

Reclaiming their worth

Removing their shame

Regaining their purpose

Selfish—

I pray in isolation

Prayers warped by entitlement

Blinded by the thick dark lens of me

The unholy trinity: me, myself, and I

Now and forever…

But “I” turns to “us” in a moment of illumination

We the people

For the people

All 

The

People

I in them and they in me

And we are all together

(goo goo g’joob)

My breath is for us now

I can fight for us now

I can cry for us now

I can break for us now