Tell me what hides here inside
a truer verity still denied
all these feelings and thoughts
well beyond mere shoulds and oughts
For I am always on this quest
facing every challenge and test
to dig down deep within
to find every virtue and sin
Lay them all out in a row
so that I might come to know
what I am now meant to learn
what salvation I might then earn
This stigmata of spilt ink
proof I am on the brink
of revealing all that I dare
within each poem I do share
As I again take on the night
fully prepared to recite
embrace this blatant patency
manifesting all of this latency