Psalm 51:5 – Repentance

I want to extract
the Egypt that’s slithered under my skin
and into my flesh and blood:

(“For the Soul of the flesh is in the blood.”)

I want to regurgitate
twenty years of toxic television
injected through my ever-dimming eyes.

I want to mute
my lifetime of slurs, cuss words, and verbal abomination,
wielded by festering egocentric hormone.

I want to reincarnate
the innocence of my own imagination
banished somewhere in the dark of night.

I want to extinguish
twenty years of popped-culture propaganda
rerunning over my mind.

All these -
still seeping through the brick walls
of repentance I have amassed
thus far.

Therefore,

I want to, at least, out live
the destruction I have sewn,

and one day, give You,
fruits in pureness grown.