Confessional pitfall

Dave BontaContemplative

I enter my journal on my knees

it says you are not fit to suffer

you know how often you have killed time

by running after other true selves

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 17 November 1667.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
suffering, time, confession, journal

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