Psalm 32:5
Then I acknowledged my sin to you, And I did not hide my iniquity:
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.

If Prayer Would Do It
Stephen Levine

If prayer would do it
I’d pray.
If reading esteemed thinkers would do it
I’d be halfway through the Patriarchs.
If discourse would do it
I’d be sitting with His Holiness
every moment he was free.
If contemplation would do it
I’d have translated the Periodic Table
to hermit poems, converting
matter to spirit.
If even fighting would do it
I’d already be a black belt.
If anything other than love could do it
I’d have done it already
and left the hardest for last.