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Two Sinners Can’t Atone from a Lone Prayer Shared Repentance

Written by Miguel Santiago

Miguel Santiago
2 min readOct 31, 2023

Two sinners stand on the edge of redemption, their hearts heavy with guilt, rippling with echoes of past misdemeanours. Bound by shadows, shackled by regret, they share a silent plea in the quiet theatre of atonement.

Each misdeed blooms like a dark flower within their souls, petals of pain unfurling in the cobwebbed corners of conscience. In their hearts, a clamour of hopeless whispers, a discordant symphony of repentance resonates, seeking harmony in forgiveness.

Believing they stand alone in this extended expanse of remorse, they raise a prayer to the indifferent macrocosm. Yet the lone plea, deeply heartfelt as it is, seems drowned in a sea of silence, a desperate cry in the abyss of absolution.

A sole prayer, though potent, struggles against the weight of their wrongdoings. Their pleas, whispers swallowed by sorrow, appear lost to the winds of forgiveness. The solemn hymn of repentance seems to be silenced by remorse’s thick mantle.

Yet, beneath the night’s blanketing silence, the whisper of wisdom stirs. It speaks a simple truth – sin may be a shared shroud, their burden doubled, but so too can be their road to redemption.

A single prayer mislaid in the monsoon of regret may falter, may fail. Yet the echo of a symphony of prayers, each note a solemnity plea for forgiveness, can strengthen their call for forgiveness, a chorus, not a…

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Miguel Santiago
Miguel Santiago

Written by Miguel Santiago

In the silent voices of my heart, I walk alone, where shadows weep and dreams lay shattered, like remnants of a storm long past.

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