Kyrie Eleison

How I wish you would

pluck off those cares

that are sucking my blood

and strip me of this nettle garment

of unmade decisions;

as everything is pressing in upon me

and my own thoughts have turned traitors against me,

I am screaming for you

to throw them all out

and rape me with your peace.

For I will suffocate unless you drown me,

in this poisoned chamber

you

are the only antidote I know.

14th June 1994