Born Again

As you enter the water unsinning, 
I shall repent eight years 
Of watching in the dark and loving 
Without turning on the light. 
I shall shed my old skin, 
Remembering you, pink and new, 
Unmarked and gifted, my gift 
Undeserved. 

I have served 
My own unmatched desires, a rift 
In God’s sequence, my blue 
Mondays, my bleak Sundays, all kin 
To my unshriven blight. 
I have loved and been unloving. 
To the font I add my tears 
And my own beginning.