Sacrament Instincts of Innocence Contest
(from The John Poems)
I absolve myself of loving you
and plead innocent
on grounds of loneliness.
My penance will be
the poetry
I misguidedly wasted on you.
For I’ll never destroy it
though the idea tempts, and reading it,
I feel a fool;
A monument to me
and my stupidity.
My monument to you.
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