Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

Heavenly Father

'Heavenly Father' - take to thee
The supreme iniquity
Fashioned by thy candid Hand
In a moment contraband -
Though to trust us - seems to us
More respectful - 'We are Dust' -
We apologize to thee
For thine own Duplicity -
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