Jesus Is My Helmet

But God is a girl

who finds frustration is being deemed so

the Virgin Mary, pristine and beautiful,

the one that keeps my head down

when I want to scream to Heaven

and she prays with me, this version of Joshua,

and baptizes me in her tears

when I tell her all the wrathful things I think about doing

to myself. She is Gabriel,

quick tongued and hilariously realistic

with her thoughts-- that independence:

she's Lucifer, a thrill seeker, craving something new

from this small town we call Purgatory,

slipping down, down, down,

I'm Virgil, she's Dante,

and we'll burn together,

going out with a bang

©SelfTitled, 2017