@a Prayer - A Confession Poem by Jordan Legaspi

A prayer- A confession


Behind my days
I was a pilgrim
Through endless night
Were no scent but only
Hate to the air fumed
Were no flowers buds
Jealousy all over the path
The torch was dead
I can’t see the passage out
Out from the vault of unbelief
Within fear consumed me;
Lust had eaten my flesh;
Greed had sucked my blood;
Pride had weakened my bones;
Malice had taken what had
Had left of me
I was then a rotten body-
The disease of guilt buried me
No tears but only
Dry earth awaits me
No hymn but only
Sadness engraved on my tomb
Alas! Doom, my final of days
Oh Heavens be my judge
From the clay I came to be
Out of mud I was born
Let your anger be
A punishment of pardon
-for the journey I had taken
In the valley of sin
Oh Heavens be my council
Let your wrath be
A plague of forgiveness
For I was innocent inside my mother’s womb;
For I was ignorant
Within my father’s house
Oh Heavens hear me
Let your anger be of mercy
Make my tears cleans me
My emptiness to clothe me
My prayer to welcome me
Oh Heavens
To new life receive me
From death save me
Light of the heavens
Cast away- the darkness of my soul,
In my heart expose my nakedness
My God deliver me
Light of the heavens
Come illumine the night
And again let me see thee
Light of the heavens
In your breath again shape me
In your wisdom form me
To the spirit of thy son
Light of the heavens- Oh God
Amen glory to thee- the Eternal One