TREK TO LOURDES TO RECEIVE BLESSINGS FROM ABOVE

Izzy Radford


It has been six months. 

We are shells of our depraved selves.

The promise of salvation is enough 

to make anyone lose their appetite

(I am stealing bread).

When we finally reach the holy fountain,

strangers have used up our divine forgiveness.

It is just piss and coins. 

Izzy Radford is a poet and screenwriter, who is currently part of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective. She has been published in And Other Poems, BULLSHIT LIT and Visual Verse.