predilection

i have knelt here before

while the innocence

of nectared breasts

cried hallelujah

i have seamed

the faint lines

on hands attached

and wondered where,

in fear, their homage

did mirror,

i have wanted, waned

and straightforward

head against the mooring

cried until god had left

and i was stilled

silent in the fancy

of early ache

i kneel again

undone by laterality

side to common side

substituting redemption

for the finality of judgment

the scary apocalypse

here jesus does not wait

nor beloved john

for but hades is replete

with this hoary tide

until hand to common hand

in reciprocal mimicry

we reveal the sign

of a night cry

untamed by its

savage predilection