Harsh Wednesday.








I masturbated; fornicated;
and adulterated.
I manipulated; corrupted;
and murdered.


I filled my platter
with meat,
my very own plastered-body
whip will meet.


Heavenly torture of troth strand sole,
why doth thou touch my holy soul?.


"From dust thou hath come,
from dust thou must now return," the priest said.


My soul sank when he said it.
My lung leapt
all in a swift to hit me,
I wept!!!.


My flaw! My flaw!, w'o'e fort'-shaking days
when I was judged, I surveyed and slumped in 'hays'.
The Ash Wednesday I braced-up my cross,
The Harsh Wednesday I embraced my cross.


All abstinence kept, all follies taint,
Hell must not say "welcome," I became a saint.

Author Notes

Inspired by the spirit of lent [ash Wednesday when it begins].



"w'o'e fort'-shaking days" can be :- "woe forty-shaking days" or "whole forty-shaking days". depends on how you'll like it.

© George Adefemi. All rights reserved, 2015.

please endeavour to drop a comment on what you think or feel about the poem.





Thanks.

First @ Op,
Why did you choose to title it "harsh wednesday" instead of "ash wednesday"?

No kiding Bro....the poem is Cool...

steady hands.......

SalC:
First @ Op,
Why did you choose to title it "harsh wednesday" instead of "ash wednesday"?

he was playing on words, it a thing so poets do.

Good peom, you simply need to add more flesh to you lines.

SalC:
First @ Op,
Why did you choose to title it "harsh wednesday" instead of "ash wednesday"?

Ubenedictus:

he was playing on words, it a thing so poets do.

^^, very true. . You could have it as Pun or malapropism

shoyemiayodeji:
No kiding Bro....the poem is Cool...

Thanks boss

[right][/right] "My flaw! My flaw! W'o'e fort'-shaking days." Is a malaprop for:-

"My Lord! My Lord! Why have you forsaken me."

Ubenedictus:
Good poem, you simply need to add more flesh to you lines.

Thanks boss, I will work on that.

lordthunderbolt:
steady hands.......

You mean calm or what?