Just A Little Sin

The only sin in the world is ignorance. - Thoreau

David and Goliath

open the door a crack

don't bother looking back

i won't stay long

won't take up much space

barely leaving a trace

after all, we've all fallen short of grace

answer when i knock

climb down off your rock

stop leaning on that pillar

i swear, it'll be a real thriller

we'll have some fun

like an uncloistered nun

quickly rolling downhill like an out-of-control ball

quickly morphing from some to all

i don't write, i scrawl

don't worry 'bout the fall

when we can't walk anymore, we'll crawl

it'll be sweet and swell

no need to fear goin' to hell

the virtue that turns the knob will silence and quell

don't worry 'bout transgression

don't fear mean regression

there's always confession

and intercession

you won't even remember me tomorrow

'cept for the sorrow

i'll barely scratch your skin

so let me in

after all

i'm just a little sin

Author's Note

"Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. He who wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together." - Thoreau