20151104 (faithfulness)

However much good confession is

For publicity it may or may not be

Salutary for your soul depending on

The legalities involved statute of 

Limitations surviving victims

Whether a weapon was found or

The scene bulldozed malled over

That’s for significant errors mine

Are more like cheatsheets generously

Self-graded quizzes carefully selected

Days taken off sick and a few time

Cards deftly punched for departed

Colleagues nothing much to 

Reveal about my role in the

Sexual revolution I served as

Neither a conscript nor a volunteer

There were no shots across my 

Bow and truth be told I would

Not have shirked my duty had 

Anyone informed me I may have

Slept through the battle call never

Forged tax documents nor

Attempted to defraud although

As a child I may have oversold

The benefits of subscribing to

The Catholic Universe Bulletin

I falsely claimed reading in toto

Several books for the library’s

Summer reading club pretty much

The same in college my brother

Built a model airplane which I

Submitted as my own won 

Second place at Young Modeler’s

Where were my mentors when I

Was foisting this charade I never

Confessed this before hope it’s

Only a venial transgression wrote

My son’s book report on Walden

For which his teacher said tell your

Father I gave him an F they won’t

Pull his medical license for that

Surely where were his mentors

When I was doing that shameful

Deed does he have to turn in his

Eagle Scout badge as an accessory

Then there’s all that inward evil

Yet to surface a la Jimmy Carter

Those women for whom I hungered

Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams, and

The like most recently that beauty

Today at Dave’s Supermarket who

Wandered up the aisle to my down

Passing her several times I thought

To blurt out I can die now knowing

I have lived for a few seconds

Within inches of you Perfection

If the ring she wore were just

An engagement ring heck

Who’d have to know if you

Find this shocking I confessed

As much to a bible study group

Just this last Sunday it is impossible

That a man should evolve through

The millennia and not emerge an

Eternally horny being that’s what

Makes marital exclusiveness such a

Treasure that spouses give up all

Those others just for one I’m happy

To confess to that

c. J.S.Manista, 2015