Dark Light

By Velington Afonso

Both showed light 

Brighter at night 

One takes inward flight  

Other fuels bible's fight  

Innocence was stripped  

Sodomy encrypts 

Confessions to sins in a crypt 

Vocation needed a rescript 

Shame burnt the soul, 

Pain could hold no more 

The cry went beyond gore 

Brim'd evil – dead fish onshore 

"Forgive me; I've sinned father"- 

A light brother to another 

"His voice - celibacy would falter, 

My carnal blood grew hotter" 

"Go in peace, turn away from sin" 

Brother to another, controlling tailspin.  

"You are forgiven, touch no skin. 

Break the wheel, pull the linchpin". 

Twilight grew, lust elucidated. 

Foul actions, thoughts truncated. 

Boy's youth and life castrated; 

White darkness, sight captivated. 

"Forgive me; I've sinned father"- 

A light brother to another 

"His smile - celibacy would falter  

No excuses, I am the instigator" 

''You inked the canvas so pure, 

and kingdom of God for sure. 

It's an illness with no cure 

You can't lead, your light's obscure''. 

"Go in peace, turn away from sin" 

You are forgiven, touch no skin. 

Break the wheel, pull the linchpin" 

Should have been the words of the scene. 

The booth echoed with glee, no guilt 

Towers were crashing of the castle built 

Left alone in the bed he quilt; 

With lust and sin, and God atilt.  

Cleansed the sin of blood with blood 

Like Judas; his disciple, a flowering bud 

He could not let his light flood 

Stopped life with a monstrance's thud! 

"Forgive me; I've sinned father"- 

A light brother to yet another 

"His words – Forgiveness couldn't muster 

I killed him and my hands didn’t waver!"

By Velington Afonso