Recipient of Pain

Offering my pain to You 

Only You can do with it what I can’t 

Raise me from all the ways

That I succumb to death 

and kill my foes and friends 

while I’m at it 

Walking over unmarked graves  

without knowing 

My being refuses to be comforted

I have wronged beyond comprehension 

I have wronged beyond what's tolerable 

I perpetuate the injustice that I’ve faced 

How are we all any different from each other?

Seek out the wickedness in me

Until you find no more 

Vindicate the ones I hurt

So that my humanness

outside of Eden

will no longer cause terror 

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Inspired by closing lines of the tenth poem in the collection of poetry in the Hebrew Scriptures