He Went Outside and Wept Bitterly

A poem about when you've done the terrible thing you swore you'd never do

Very occasionally I dabble with trepidation in poetry. I truly don’t know what I’m doing, but sometimes I find that whatever is stirring within me can’t be expressed in prose.

So here is a poem inspired by today’s Gospel reading from the Daily Office Lectionary, where the Apostle Peter realizes he had done the terrible thing he swore he'd never do (Luke 22:54-62).