Unrighteousness Inlayed Woven into me I had to put the misery Out to pasture Target practice almost buried me The blood sweat And tears became entwined Null in void Like the fiddler On my roof banished Beyond liberating As the prisons crumbled Fortresses and barriers fared No better collapsed Could no longer hold Me at there own request Consume elsewhere Find a new enemy Identifying a better reality Taking a bite of The right fruit for once Endless chapters Non fiction roared Like the sad fables of yesterdays They might still be screaming But I’m not listening Not my kind of scripture I didn’t have Enough tools on my belt To cope properly Until he shined down on my sadness Eventually I started easing towards Something more graceful