ABSOLUTION

ABSOLUTION

This is the last poem in the first compilation of poems written by me over the years ‘Secrets of the Soul’. Absolution is defined as the act of freeing one self from blame or guilt, a release from consequences and obligations. Though the word itself has its origin in Christian theology, the concept is equally applicable to all religions – a confession and a pardon. Absolution to me is the state of having emptied yourself of all the, secrets of your soul and now you stand shorn of the cloak you have been wearing, exposed and undaunted.

Absolution

I stand exorcised

Of the ghosts of the past,

That haunted and hounded me,

Through the corridors

Of the path I had tread,

And through the halls of time.

I stand exposed,

Shorn of the cloak of desire

That had veiled my gnarled face,

With not a stitch to cover,

The nakedness that lay within

The confines of my existence.

I stand alone

In the midst of the swirling waters,

Hugging the protuberance,

Avoiding the final fall,

And vanishing over the edge,

To be swept away to oblivion.

I stand absolved,

Of all the guilt and shame, that eroded,

The entrails of my conscience,

As I shake the shackles from my ankles,

Break away from the bonds

That held me down.