Sad Prayers for Guilty Bodies

They stored their passion in the creases

In the corners of their mouths

Every angle of light from the open window

Washed their aged faces out

"Should we feel guilty?" they said

"Should we feel guilty for this sin?

Lord

did we kill a man and woman

Just to lie here skin to skin?"

"I wasn't happy

I wasn't happy where I was

Oh

what is life without a purpose?

What is purpose without love?

I pray my children will forgive me

Though I bade the river flood

I have washed my hands a thousand times

But still can see the blood

I still can see the blood"

"Oh

great mercy

I am here

To beg forgiveness for this mess

I know I tore two worlds apart

But I can't change the way I felt

Love swept in like a storm

And ripped the hinges from the doors

Love poured in like a flood

I couldn't stop it any more

I will not be

No

I will not be

Drowned"

She said

"Lover

come and hold me

I'm terribly afraid

While you're shouting at the stars

My scars are not fading away"

He said

"Darling

I was begging

Heaven make them disappear

But see

I didn't get an answer

Or at least one I could hear

Now

I am thinking of the past

And how we both said vows and lied

And I am wondering how we trust ourselves

To say a second time

To say a second time"

To have and to hold

From this day and onward

For better or for worse

For richer or poorer

In sickness and in health

To love and to cherish

Till death do us part

Till death do us part