RELIGION Poem: Internalized Love, by Taylor Heath

I call upon thee
To take away my sickness
Rip away my sins
And to save my soul
My greatest punishment for sin lays beside me
Her light appearing like a fiery depth I want no part of
Is Heaven an eternal greatness if it commands pain?
Will heaven satisfy if my sickness is incurable?
Or is my actions the only determining factor of my soul?
My thoughts are not any purer
My eternal damnation is no love to worship
And no God to serve
Please see the white light that I yearn for
A purity and innocence I no longer possess
My indisposition can hide in the shadows
And please do not place shame the one my heart yearns for my disease is not
contagious
Only disgustingly intolerable and built up on subterfuge
Then once I lay to rest
Brought down by earth’s conditions instead of the disease I learnt to live with
I may worship the only God my faith recognizes

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