God Bless This Sin

[couchgrouch]

God Bless This SinKim saw Al Roker on tv that winter raising the Christmas pine in Rockefeller Centerbut Kim was poor and though her daughter was smallshe knew the sock on mommy's hand wasn't a dollso Kim got in a van outside a ghetto marketthen bought a tree and Tickle-Me-Elmo at Targetdragged that tree up three flights of sagging stairsset the doll underneath then whispered in prayer"God bless this sinand help me to liveI hope my weaknessis something you'll forgiveplease read my heartand if goodness is what you seethen God bless this sinand have mercy on me"well, Jodi loved the Lord and knew the scripturesshe listened with both ears to her mama's lecturesbut that boy's promises were smooth and softher young heart sighed when he slipped her glasses offwell, Jodi's mama listened to her church's eldersJodi roamed the night till she found a woman's sheltercome Spring in a county hospital bedshe tickled her baby's nose and said"God bless this sinand help me to liveI hope my weaknessis something you'll forgiveplease read my heartand if goodness is what you seethen God bless this sinand have mercy on me"some say the world is black and whitewhen it's a bluer shade of greysome let life decide, what's wrong and what's rightand in the darkness they pray"God bless this sinGod bless this sin"(c)2005 Robert George