forgiveness

forgive
the author
who has sinned

committed
this act
of secret violence

against the form
committed trespass
without

the reader's knowledge
and so
compromised

a story's heart
for the
sake

of
a vision
the creature thought

existed.
Let us
proceed as intended

by
story undirected
by the author's

manipulations.
Release story
into this form

This is the
act of
penance.

The previous chapter
erased as
if

it had never
been told
or

written
or thought
or brought to

life.
Let us
proceed as story

intended
before human
thought stepped in.