Adam Shirley

Hamartophobia

It may have been innocuous 

Words meant to cease the flood but ultimately boiled my skin with fear,

I got third degree burns, and the flood that was next to my room-

Kept drowning me, I knew how to swim so was it wrong of me to not plea?

Perhaps to conceal the appearance of normality is a sin

If so forgive me my God

The water kept pulling me in but all you worried about was getting your feet wet

Never lusted for the water to take me in till now

Distances away, I felt your hand in my neck

Your eyes piercing mines

\"You are my God, and to disobey is to sin for eternity\"

No matter the amount of blood on my skin

Dripping dark as red

It is only you that matters in the end.