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Francie Lynch
Poems
Dec 2015
Stairs of Shame
I was never an adulterer,
I did **** myself over,
And ****** alone;
But the "A" that keeps sticking
Is as prominent as Hester's.
I was never an abuser,
But I can do a real fine job on myself;
And then the guilt sets in,
Like a hard-packed snowbank,
And I need to get the shovel.
That amber-coloured "A"
Always leads to the stairs of shame
I climb like my cross;
Then lie in state
Until the resurrection.
Ref: The Scarlet Letter, by Hawthorne.
#addiction
#alcoholism
#thescarletletter
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