Remorse sits in my place

Conscience speaking to us
in the request to return;
“Remorse sits in my place”,
because you fail to believe.

Unwilling to maintain discipline,
to walk in God’s way,
we struggle in the dark
often going astray.


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September 12, 2012
inspired by reading at Poets’ Corner
monthly poetry reading,
at the Suncook Senior Center
of Paul Lawrence Dunbar
http://www.dunbarsite.org/
poem, “Conscience and Remorse”,
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/dunbar/poetry.php?type=poem&id=230
and the last line,
“remorse sits in my place”
September 10, 2012
&
earlier poem of July 24, 2012
“the pain of regret”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-pain-of-regret.html
2 Samuel 11:6-15
2 Samuel 11:1-15
David and Bathsheba
Upper Room Disciplines for 2012
http://bookstore.upperroom.org/cart/upperroom/p-17131.htm
July 23, 2012 to July 29, 2012
“Stay Focused!”
by Jorge Acevedo
for July 24, 2012,
read July 24, 2012
&
2 Samuel 11:1-5
Upper Room Disciplines for 2012
http://bookstore.upperroom.org/cart/upperroom/p-17131.htm
July 23, 2012 to July 29, 2012
“Stay Focused!”
by Jorge Acevedo
for July 23, 2012,
read July 23, 2012

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