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deliverance and hope
tender steps through gilded doors
shakey words delivered from an honest throat
soft missteps of the tongue show heart
proudly sung hymns echo in the chambers
awaiting sweet letters to fill eager ears
nerves rattling knocking, tired bones
tending to paper gardens and rhetorical traps
resentment resting in aching muscles
heavenly, hopeful phrases repeated on loop:
deliver me from fate, deliver me from fate,
allow heavy steps into a new destiny,
deliver me to fate, deliver me to fate
may a jovial goddess kiss the egoic spark
may she free her child from their rotting cage
together, in hand, flying towards the zenithed sun,
having planted abundant seeds to sprout great fruits




