assignment: write a poem

The greates
t poet you
have writte
n of yourse
lf in the c
onstancy of
the tide an
d the parad
ox of the u
niverse and
even someho
w in me tho
ugh I am so
completely of the earth a jar of clay I shatter I am Catholic by nature I understandthe syntax of justice and penance but not of mercy I make all things new you say and yet I make the same mistakes sickeningly daily Still you are patient You are mine you say I am promiscuous pride agenda doubts stubbornness make me a harlot and each time I pretend that my actions are worth the nails you endured It is so easy to hate myself But you edit out these
chapters You
are mine
I argue my
failures and
you remind m
e that I hav
e only read
one page of
the story Yo
urs is one o
f redemption
You gave us
stories and
you gave us
symbols and
then you gav
eus your lif
e Yet we rep
ay you by d
amaging your
name We cruc
ify you dail
y And you al
low this It
was your grea
test act of m
ercy your ple
a for our fel
lowship a sym
bol not of my
stery or of n
arrative but
of love Come
be mine