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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: Crime and Punishment (not about the book) (07/21/11)

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• TITLE: no other reason | Previous Challenge Entry
  By Jim McWhinnie
  07/22/11
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my life is but scratches upon these prison walls,
in this grey stone purgatory, I spend my time,
the slow and slowing time, this penitential time
burning down my own eternity,
in agonizing futility,
the grit of guilt grinds into my wounds,
the deep regrets of crimes long time gone
but which linger long
in this aging, greying, growing old,
“what have I done?”
“what have I done?”
if by God’s grace I could undo,
I would undo,
what never can be now undone.
yet as I scrawl them, one by one,
I say a prayer,
that my once captured soul might breathe
of distant Eden’s fresh morning air,
to hear the waters of freedom come,
“what have I done? what have I done?”
“O Lord, I pray thee set me free,
let me serve, but let me be,
so I once more might see heaven’s sky,
and feel the seasons passing by,
to walk among the mountain firs,
“O Lord, forgive for I am yours.”
no other reason, for I am yours.”

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