give us this day our daily bread
and lead us not into the toilet
for carbs are calories
and so is time
this is my body (said bread) broken for you
take, eat, and remember
i take, eat, and regurgitate
i purge your purging of my sins
for bread is not safe
but are you?

i exist
in the catch of one’s throat
choked by pain i can’t swallow
in the tension in the lower lip
how it trembles
in emotion stalled
and tears that never fall

we spoke, i thought,
in time until;
you love me,
you say it,
we marry,
you’re mine

now only i measure
in time since;
you said it wasn’t right,
you left,
i was not alone,
you were mine.

i measure life in time until i forget you.

the blood drips from my fingers
meets the blood on his palm
i hear the voice that whispers
behold- here i am

i knock on the door
my knuckles raw and bleeding
only to find
i did not survive the weeding

perhaps it isn’t right
but i needed God not in hindsight
nor footprints in the sand
I simply needed your hand