A multiverse cannot comprehend

Lead me not into temptation:

Wrap me in your benediction.

Each supplicant meets lips to gold,

A sacramental overload:

Miserere mei secundum magnam.

To heaven I raise my soured eyes;

Exaudi nos, aeterne Deus.

My heavy voice is cold and dead:

Foveat Deus, defendat

Et salutare tuum da nobis.

O still my heart; assuage my thirst;

May your enemies die cursed;

Ostende nobis, Domine

Misericordiam tuam,

Mundabor me, lavabis.

O quare me repulsiti?

Et dolorosa erue me?

Remissionem peccatorum

Misericors nostorum

Salvation, hope, eternity?

This moment, somewhere, someone’s praying

For forgiveness, crying, laying

Down their sins, iniquities,

Harsh words spoken, homilies;

O Christo, kyrie eleison.

Per Christum dominum nostrum;

Et dominus vobiscum.

Deleanturn delicta;

Lachrymose I kneel here,

Bereft of faith, O Lord of fiction.