Lord, have mercy.

Lord have mercy,

I feel your embrace in the air around me.

Your whispers encircle my soul

and through my tears I feel your presence.

I throw my head back momentarily loosing myself

in the vastness of the heavens.

I realise the smallness of my being

and my vulnerability before you.

My heart cries out in pain,

isolated and trapped.

I wordlessly pore out the poisons of the world

that have dented my soul.

Your presence absorbs the bulk of my wounds,

my scars left as a sad reminder

of the sin around and within me.

Lord forgive my sins.  †