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Greetings, my name is Dismas. Welcome to The Lesser Word, my website for all my work in verse and prose. I write because I have a mouth but can not scream.

If only such a depressive tagline were true. In reality, I write because I like writing and because I like writing what people may enjoy. Also, by working on this sight, I believe writing may be developed into a skill worth selling. What's more, my degree's in Marketing, so keeping this website helps me practice what I've learned regarding SEO and brand management.

In the library are books I'm currently drafting and books I enjoy reading. Currently, I update a work of fiction inspired by the tone of Dostoyevsky's Notes of the Underground told through didactic poems titled "Ekeldema: An Armory for Spritual Warfare." Feel free to check it out by clicking on the cover below.

Ekeldema is a collection of poems authored by a wretched soul. Here is a tale of death, resurrection, and guilt which comes from the mercies given for sins deserving death. Yea, the guilt of an undeserving life who has sinned and reaped the rewards of good.

An Excerpt from Ekeldema 32:

Oh God, if I be your enemy,
Could you still love me?
Oh God, if your Word be true,
Could you still love me too?
Even if I'm no friend of yours
Could you still help me Lord?
Doesn't your sun shine
On both evil and good?
Could I be loved though I'm no good,
Could you save me from
Self-afflicted curse?

For too many years I've blasphemed.
I am ashamed, forgive me.
I sometimes wish I'd never been.
If I had sinned a greater sin,
Perhaps you'd have less offense,
But now I've sinned and can't forget
By the mark of mortal sin.
Could you please lift this mark?
Lord could you please forgive
Or will I have to walk the Earth,
Ashamed you let me live
For so long as I can't forget!