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AUTO DA FE

 Auto da fe

  

I recognize
My individual and unique
Humanity
Forged to  steel
By  years of fire
Some brutal
Some kind
Most of them dire.
Genetically planned obsolescence.
Failure of Creation. I recognize
My strengths and virtues
Progeny of original sin
I survive
That stain I carry within
My soul
Temptation’s call

I rise above my commonality
Searching for the divinitiy
Inside of me.
Arrogance  of Individiuation 
Lucifer’s Sin.

On  the edge of my mortality
It is now I begin to see
The insanity of illusion
The pain of disillusion
The waste of it all
As I fail
As I fall.

Not a matter of salvation
No question of redemption
No need for suffering and expiation
I am  only
The  magnificent imperfection
Of His making
Nothing less
Nothing more

Miiserere Domine

 

miserere Domine = Lord have mercy

 

 

 

 
— Geremia, Nov 24, 2009

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Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 6 months ago

Misere Domine

The good Lord would be honoured and flattered to have one of his 'proselytes' understand his words so well, with such honesty and insight, a prayer to the elements of human nature and knowledge of great compassion and passionate love of life. Your Annuccia