heavy sky
hiding from the English
sunshine
© Rachel Green December 2024
Growing up,
believing I was bad, or wrong, or "sinful"
just for being a child
without socially normative values;
every day, a new thing to apologise for:
speaking without a prompt;
reading non-religious texts,
playing with dolls and dressing up;
memorising long passages of Shakespeare
instead of reading the Holy Texts
and wasting the gristle on a fatty cut of meat.
No Scientology but a cult nonetheless:
Catholicism 101, where existence itself
begets a new sin every day.
© Rachel Green December 2024
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