Saintly

Failed virtues of the people today

nothing can be fixed 

going to church every day

You’re Catholic

and I’m pious

and we still have our fingers 

dipped in the blood 

of our desires

What makes you more saintly than me I ask

Oh! I pray and confess twice in the last pass

I repent my sins 

and donate to charity 

to evade taxes 

cause I can’t stand in the stinky lines

of the soup kitchen

to feel those empty glances 

I’m looking at the God

and still stripping you with my eyes

they say I’m a man of cloth

who has burned every desire

Lighting up candles

kneeling to make my wishes come true

I can kill a person’s desire to live

but I can make a saint out of you.

Reading the holy scriptures

and accepting the truth in the gospel

we are camouflaging so beautifully

hiding the devil so well.

So what makes you feel

so saintly and

makes me a devil

please, pray tell.

 

This post is in response to the daily prompt Saintly

Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash

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