Bless me Father, for I have sinned.

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Dark Poetry #5

Bless me Father, for I have sinned.

vampirelover
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since 2009-05-17

Posts 74

0 posted 2009-05-31 01:07 PM

It has been estimated that there are literally thousands of Priests still abusing children, despite the claim that the practice has been “dealt with”. This poem is not an attack on the Roman Catholic Church, as abuse is probably widespread in most, if not all, professions involving children and vulnerable adults.

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I live
in a crepuscular world
of hot sweaty hands

clerical panting

death of the land
of my childhood

lost in a cellar
of lonely dark
dreams

no-one will help
me
cos nobody
seems
to see
what is happening

who can I tell
what he’s doing to me
when the shepherds
agree
to lie through their teeth
even to death

he says if I tell
I’ll go straight to hell

I wake FOR THE LAST TIME.
Remembering….....

SEA

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since 2000-01-18

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with you

1 posted 2009-05-31 05:04 PM

this packs a punch....

great job

Suncleaver
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since 2009-01-18

Posts 481
Stafford England

2 posted 2009-06-02 09:40 PM

A powerful indictment levelled against all who will do a bad thing and call it good, using their carnivorous saviour as a source of absolution for their unpardonable crimes and drowning their victims in altar wine.

I couldn't agree more.

vampirelover
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since 2009-05-17

Posts 74

3 posted 2009-06-03 03:33 AM

Thank you, Sea.

vampirelover
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since 2009-05-17

Posts 74

4 posted 2009-06-03 03:36 AM

Thank you, Suncleaver. What shocks me, perhaps even more than the abuse itself, is the world-wide cover up.

fractal007
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since 2000-06-01

Posts 1958

5 posted 2009-06-06 10:19 PM

I've been meaning to read some of your stuff for a while now, Vampirelover. I'm glad I did. The abuse of a concept like hell is one of the reasons, I think, that so many find it difficult to take seriously the metaphysical claims of religion.

Life's short. Think hard!
Me!

vampirelover
Member

since 2009-05-17

Posts 74

6 posted 2009-06-07 12:27 PM

Yes, fractal. As you rightly point out, it is the ABUSE of the concept that is the problem.

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