it was never true

I cannot be a part of you 

was never really a part of you 

only in sacraments taken young 

penance in Standard Two 

communion on Three 

confirmation in Five 

as a child I believed 

the way I believed in Santa Claus 

but it was never true. 

[Kalilah Enríquez {1983- }, an excerpt from 'The Unbeliever', from Shades of red : poems, short stories and selceted [sic] transcripts of "my perspective"]