Ceding to “Convention”
Take it in
accept acceptance
with all of your hesitations
(it’s not what you expected).
They have lives too
with eyes and ears
and covered hearts
now uncovered.
Where will this lead?
It’s not for me to say.
I’ve never been here before.
I unfold my fingers for exchanges.
I remember refusing to pray
but for those on the outside.
What do we know of the forgotten
while walking hallowed halls?
Yet there is hope
in the words of a street-wise priest:
an aside to unemployment and youth drugs
not quite an aside.
I have a foot on each side of the line
Is this final fate?
I take steps in trust
the darkness within dissipates by degrees.
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