Three Hail Mary's

Guilt!

Three Hail Mary’s

Forgive me Father for I have sinned;

many times.

And now I have stored them

all around my house,

in every room in which I’ve tread.

Some are stuffed down the sides of my sofa,

there are fresh ones in my refrigerator.

The ones that I need to have today

are in a fruit bowl on my table, my five a day!

I have quite a few I sleep on, under my bed

and in a dusty box in my loft are the dried ones

I can’t throw out, but I’d sooner forget I have.

I fear I am running out of space

and they keep accumulating like autumn leaves.

I guess I might need to hire self-storage soon......

......who would be a Catholic eh?

 

06/11/14

Author's Note

Reviews

[The Black Warrior]

I like this poem,
Well rounded, eloquent
Very much interesting.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Suk.

[The Black Warrior]

Your welcome!

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A quiet confessional that exploded upon reading well done x

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed Thomas. Many thanks.

[Leslie Philibert]

a clever look at the Catholic Church with all its strangeness, but, I detect a hidden fondness too, carried through with irony ; like this too

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Leslie. I despise the Catholic church after years of being part of it.

[Ruth]

It is a heavy burden to feel sin or guilt, I naturally feel guilt, always have and for no reason...they do collect like a chain of stones around the neck until you realise you are only meant to be you...cool music too xo

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I guess many of us feel guilt. I am lucky as mine is a shaddow and no more. Glad you like the music and thank you Poppy.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

oh those rosaries, and that constant penance we need to do ---catholic upbringing...
the guilt factor...acts of contrition...

judgment, too much of it...

love the poem.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Jacob.

[Terpsichore]

Impossible to count the times we 'sin' between cradle and grave. It's called being human.

Good take on a thorny subject.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Many thanks Terpsichore.

[Rene Salinas]

Funny this is, I grew up Catholicand that whole view of sin I always thought it was so messed up, I still rememember well when I mentioned Alber Camus to a priest and I got a condescendent look about accepting the absurdity of life. In this writing there is an invitation to accept just that the ansurdity of life not just that is is complemented with copious amounts of humour which lightens up the load, truly the last thing we want to do is let that heavy definition to creep into our physicallity and start letting sin devlop into guilt, guilt into depression so on so forth.

Thankyou

[John Alexander McFadyen]

No thank yoy Rene for relating to this. I have written several pieces on the subject as my ex Catholocism is a core part of me now as I grew to dislike the Catholic teachings and absurd hypocracy. Original sin and all that!

[Rene Salinas]

Yeah Joh nagreed but not living up to a standard has proved fatal for the youngsters it is indeed a coomon reason for suicidal feelings.... The standard is so high they can't achieve it a judge themselves.. Harrowing stuff.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I know and I suffered it then woke up. Cheers Rene.

[Lyn Anderson]

Okay, I don't know if it's just because I am Catholic, but I absolutely unconditionally love this piece. The whole thing is filled with a wonderful dry wit

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you 'M' I now think the Catholic faith to be a sick joke so indeed throw a bucket of wit its way with a dolop of anger!