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Confessional booth

The homeless have slept in them.

Traveling couples have stolen in

   and loved in them.

They might be bugged by the intelligence

  agencies of several countries or individuals

  seeking fodder for blackmail.

Unrepentant serial killers have forced priests

   to break the confessional seal of silence.

Alcoholic priests' lips have been

   unlocked by drink

Judgmental priests have driven

   some forever out of that religion.

Then there are those who will

   confess to God alone who

   already knows.

But there are those priests who listen

  hour after hour, though their legs

  are cramping, their thirst is raging

  and they are fighting against sleep.

Whatever the history of a single

  confessional booth, through 2 millennia

  billions have been able to lay down

  the burdens of terrible guilt, find peace,

  and begin to make amends.