Tuesday, January 29, 2013

A Prayer


Close my mouth, stop
my voice—it cannot
fulfill expectation.
Take your fingers
and hold my tongue—
it moves in unholy rhythms.
Halt my pen, erase
its ink—it wheels
too freely.

Unless
I speak for you,
inhibit my faculties. Unless
I uncover a truth, press
to my lips a hot coal.
Mover of mountains, I say
move the mass that
pins me.

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