Sinners

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Forgive me

For I have sinned.


But what is a sin?

Is it sleeping with someone you don't love?

Is it killing any chance for your friend to smile again?

Is it hearing the news of something terrible, and being 

so scared to make the wrong move that you laugh out of impulse?


Or is it lacking acceptance for who other people are

Or telling someone that they're useless

Or looking into the one you fell in love with, and telling 

them that you don't just to make another happy?

Sin exists

But it doesn't.

Sin hurts

But it doesn't.

But most of all,

Sin is. 

Sin is looking at the bottom of a swimming pool, 

seeing a brutal image of someone being raped and 

almost murdered, and not caring that it's your 

best friend down there,

About to die

Because they decided to trust you for once in their lifetime.

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