Transposed (a Lenten sonnet)

Naked, I lie prostrate before you, sins

Exposed; I offer no mitigations,

Humbly I submit my prayer, no excuse

Enclosed; affectations would serve no use,

Surely, self-righteous boasters, their merit

Supposed, now have all they will inherit,

Stricken men have naught to do but kneel, Self

Deposed, to regain their abandoned health,

Behold, the miracle of love! Accounts

Transposed; corpses resurrect at the fount,

Rags, filthy, stripped from my back; with crimson

Enrobed; above my brow a crown glistens,

A rebel, a friend of serpents, sins now

Disclosed, has been made a son, and how!

The Great Exchange, places traded, my guilt

Disposed; my Lord, do with me as Thou wilt.

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