POETRY

Sweet Surrender

She was an angel’s profile

He was Jesus on His side

An eye squint

Plus the right sunlight

Created cherubs side by side

The silhouette smeared with each fingered probe

Hands stretched towards salvation’s cross

Knee deep aside

swallows whole

Life’s breaths voluntarily surrender:

Infanticide my crime

Adulthood, I swear to You

Never take me alive