Secret Perversions

by Shawn Smith- May 31, 2007

Reciting words of sacred writ
The folded hands upon the chest
The bended back, the bended knee
And to the ground my fallen crest

All outward signs of saintliness
Obscure from sight the reality
Of forces dark within my breast
That inflame me with perversity

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