Seed words:
"Trinity"
I can't remember my last prayer
living in this earthly box
there once was power in the air
sealed away with cosmic locks
in lack of faith, I'm like a stone
so sure am I, so solid here
I drop the soul and keep the known
I place my faith in what is near
Commentary: This poem discusses my drift towards agnosticism and eventually atheism, which occurred over the course of my adolescence. I tried something new and possibly gimmicky with this. Try reading the poem three times — once in its entirety, once skipping the indented lines, and once skipping the unindented lines — and think of each as a distinct poem. The idea is to show a sort of internal back-and-forth, with different perspectives emerging from the conflict. The name is suggestive of both the Holy Trinity which I used to worship and the trinitarian nature of the poem itself.
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