Black Soap

Black soap,

it's in a tin

brand new

three times worn in

bought to pamper

used to purge

was a simple

saturday splurge

but no more now

it means something else

not for giving treats

my dark dark soap

rough and messy

scrapes daily defeats

rubbing hard

here and there

to buff away the

pain and wrong

my daily song

scrub it all this day

no soft nor white

soap will do the trick

for rub all day it will simply rub

it cannot scratch the muck

I have to use my blackest soap, 

to clean off my bad luck

let's start anew

with skin all red

and nothing there to taint it

and maybe someday

I'll be clean

and can use white soap instead