Repents

To say such words
As if you are repenting for your sins.
To tell me again and again.
To never let me forget.

You repeat that phrase,
You are not atoning for your sins,
But for mine.
You are doing all the hail Marie's for me.
You keep this cross hanging over my head like a sword.

I can't forget what I have done,
Not with you around.
I can't atone for what I am
When all you do is remind me.

You repeat that phrase so often it might as well be burned into my skin.
But I am not the sinner here. You are.

You have chastised me and labeled me an outcast.
You have used your religion
To make me hate myself
When I have only shown you love.

The only sinner here, is you