Not Again (a plea)

Please
Don't make me
Take that plunge
Into your darkness


Please
Don't make me
Into something I'm not
Into something you want


Please
Don't make me
Follow that path
Run in your direction


Please
Don't make me
Cry barely surviving
Using your shoulder of sin


Please
Don't stay here
Go away far away
Take your nights and sleep


I don't want this
I want more
Something of a freedom
Something you never can give.

-JMSgambelluri

Not Again (a triumph)

I walk
Once more
Beyond your penetrating fingers
Over the wall of paper you built


I stand
Once more
On this Rock from the Sky
In this water He blessed


I believe
Once more
His hands love me more
His heart warms me more


I am
Once more
The creature He wants me to be
The creature He built me to be


-JMSgambelluri