LOVE NOT SIN. 1972.

What's it like?
she asks me
my new friend
Abela
what's what like?
confessions
at the church
where you go
don't go now
lost my way
in limbo
I reply
but back then
when you went?
she asks me
went along
to the church
saw the priest
and confess
confess what?
she insists
any sins
that I had
committed
what's a sin?
she goes on
an offence
against God
involving
what actions?
Too many
to repeat
example

give me some
she lies there
in the bed
butt naked
hands behind
her dark brown
hair and head
having sex
outside of
a marriage
coveting
another's
sexy wife
or husband
and so on
I tell her
so you are
committing
a sin thing
being here
with me now?
both of us
are sinning
in God's eyes
but I don't
believe in
God at all
she answers
God don't care
about that
He doesn't
considered
that matters
sin's a sin
in His book
I reply
that's not fair
why should I
be judged so?

she utters
pulling up
the white sheet
to cover
her two tits
from my sight
forgetting
that God saw
what we did
all last night
I kiss her
on the head
on the cheek
on the lips
on the chin
hoping she'll
relent and
let me in
to her bed
and her arms
between thighs
to make love
and not sin.