Does God really hate chocolate?
The temptation of Terry's All Gold,
lust for a Lion Bar, craving a Crunchie:
do these fuel the fury of a green-eyed god?
Must penitence mean pain?
Are poor souls put in peril
unless they put off pleasure:
is that what God demands each purple Lent?
Instead of giving something up we could
take something up to feed the soul;
to grow, to learn, to make, to read –
a holy hobby, a discipline of joy.
Yet, does old wisdom have its place?
Perhaps we're blind to our addictions,
and need to break their subtle hold,
a sacrifice of self to free ourselves.
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