shallow grave

The following poem was published in The Phoenix, Pfeiffer University’s literary journal:

shallow grave

Satan and God argue

about me

I can’t hear them

but I feel the rift

I keep my distance

I know to dodge their fire

ice

earthquake

I walk while I die

I suck in the Holy Spirit’s

second-hand smoke because

I won’t let her into my house

I never go far enough

they always find my shallow grave

where my shallow words

my shallow life lie

they pull me from my dirt

hose me off

dry me with their white hot light

each says there’s always hope

God and Satan argue

about me

one says I’m too far gone

one says I show promise

© 2019 Cindy B. Stevens

Published in The Phoenix, Pfeiffer University

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