Errant

How is it that you can implant in me

Like a packet of carelessly sown seeds

This uncontrollable flow'ring of guilt?



What is it that you see, looking at me

With your puzzled brow, disbelieving eyes,

Wry cynicism twisting bitter lips?



Do you think you've caught me in some bad act

Unlawful, breaking society's bounds

Merely because I am in this abode?



I'll leave. I'll go. I don't want to disturb.

I knew not my presence would bother you.

There. The errant flush of guilt's growth is stopped

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