How do I remove
The images in my mind
Of the things that I have seen
To which I should have been blind

Scenes to which my eyes
By my lustful thoughts were drawn
Seem to be forever there engrained
Though I wish that they were gone

Will I ever forget
Once my eyes have seen
An image I wished I had not
Or a thought within a dream

Can the scene not be removed
Once through the eye it enters in
Or is it hidden there forever
To only tempt me once again

For once the eye beholds
It will store in memory
And the image will there remain
For good or agony

O how I wish my eyes
To these scenes had been blind
For then I would not carry
The burden of this kind