“Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven
              people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be
                            forgiven.”                                                                                   
                                                                                                  — Matt. 12:31

my words are frightened creatures
trembling in a cave of flesh, and i
cannot seem to lure them into
the green and open fields

          beyond 

the Son of Man warns us
the only unforgivable trespass:
to see him and harden our hearts
against who he is.

there is a promise
         in the rebuke:
He is and will remain,
here and himself.

The irony:  not even that
act is unforgivable, his choice.

as long as he remains (forever)
we can come back (until we cannot)

          or until we do not.

purgatory
is the place
we plant
our feet

and hell is
what we choose
to live.