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DEVILS YEARN BUT MY HEART MORESO
Shirley Gothen
In church we're told that devils are
around us.
They hind behind the steeples
that cast us in perpetual shadow.
I walk only through these spots,
shunning sunlight.
Here even God isn't watching.
I know you sing in the choirs
where peals of light
like bells make your hair shine
and my eyes wet.
I'm yearning now, more than I should.
I told myself before I never would,
but then again I told myself I'd never bleed,
but bleeding is as natural to me
as breath and water.
Shirley Gothen has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 30/11/99. Read more of Shirley's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of Shirley's latest works: