A child, stepping out of the shower, awkward,
Getting water all over the tile floor.
Met, affectionately, and only, with a towel.
How weird, to assume there would be something to forgive.
***

The acts we thought were sins
The old sins- you know them- they’re so obvious.
Loosing your V card.
Being too sexy.
Not being sexy enough.
Not having a boyfriend.
Giving away parts of your heart.
Coming out.

Millennial sins.
Words that hit the bottom of cul-de-sac lake like a rock.
Thud.
The truth.

Turns out,
It was the dude who owned Abercrombie
And The Limited
And Victoria’s Secret
All the stores in the mall!
That was responsible for all this morality.

Turns out, the actual sins are:
Pedophilia.
Exploitation.
Status-seeking.
Arms dealing.

Are those listed in the Bible?
They should be.

Man, I want to tell my teenage friends
How far off the hook we were.

I want to go back and spread the message:
We are free to keep making up dances in Jenna’s basement!
And we don’t need to drive two hours to Grand Rapids to practice grinding on each other in a club.
We can just do it right here!