Spiritual adultery

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In the deep archives

of your carefully hidden pools of glistening dark mysteries

Do you sometimes wish to erase some of your unwelcomed moments 

Held firmly within your mind 

For its a part of your own divine legacy 

Your history

Do you sometimes stand drinking from its ever-present distillery 

Even though it may consume you with so much pain and emotional injury 

Do you visit its office often 

Deep in ravines of your own inner ministry 

Even though its a place overflowing with such tainted misery 

Or do you simply try to conquer those dark spells and memories as you walk 

Filled with hope and faith on a new glorious road 

To a promised land called 

Victory

Where happiness is simply the new form of spiritual adultery 

Copyright John Duffy 2018