The shape of offerings

Spilled faith on the altar of

Hopelessness

One step to one knee

Second knee to altered plea

Bruised miracles appended to cartilage

Braced for whatever’s next

Closed eyes closed

Open pleas open

A man amended alms

Arms armed amidst all

Second knee then severed breath

One knee to altered steps

Hopefully

Collected this substance called for

Wiped from the alter back into the heart’s jar

More here than when I arrived

Offerings filling this shape

Shaping this being until he is again filled

#poetry