Poem: At the Altar

Quiet steps on cracked stone 

The youngest cautiously entered

Believing she could be saved

Goodness abandoned her

She had careful steps

Evading the darkness

Kindness deserted her

She refused to let go 

Engulfed in shadows

The eldest trudged behind

She surrendered years ago

Heavy, gutted soul

Her steps dragged in

Desiring damnation

Rugged, broken heart

Drowning in grief

Repining remedy

She collapsed into rock

Generational wounds

Yearning for release

Her sister knelt beside her

Pleading for forgiveness

Praying to an unseeable god

He too had forsaken them

Begging for deliverance

Two souls of the same body

Left to mend their brokenness

One hopeful, the other ashamed

Two souls of the same affliction

Bound by blood, bound by pain

Attempting to correct family sins

Not knowing if its too late.