Church Service
By Edward Ahern
In between singing and praying
and chanting and preaching
is silence.
And in that stillness we overhear
the rustling of demons uncomfortable
in hypocrisy.
Under the fancy-dressed pieties
are the soiled linens of
our weaknesses
that we fear or relish repeating,
that infiltrate our thoughts even
while praying.
The evils of our being writhe
unearthed on the bare soil of
our devotion.
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