NaPoWriMo 2025 - day eleven

unless
unless unless unless
 
if it be not that
 
we just keep repeating
the words
 
as if it’s an incantation
 
as if it can protect us
 
as if we could get on our knees
and pray everything away
 
unless
unless unless unless
 
we could make excuses
we could tell ourselves the lies
 
we could get on our knees
make supplication
 
let it be this
 
let us be prisoners