No hesitation, Lord,
Do I, in sinning, feel
In thought or deed or word.
Keep back, I pray, my sin’s reward,
Nor let me hesitation feel
In repenting afterward.
Michael Yost is a poet and essayist living in rural New Hampshire with his wife and children. His work has appeared in Modern Age, First Things, The University Bookman, Dappled Things, New Lyre, Hearth & Field, The Brazen Head, and elsewhere. He writes at The Weight of Form on Substack.