Saturday, 3 January 2026

#2197 - all the world's spent prayers rain down

 


2197

7.4

4.i.26

all the world’s spent prayers

for godsbother

 

 

all the world’s spent prayers rain down

 

one can’t claim not to be struck

 

old wishes stick

 

not everyone will see

can you hear them though?

 

some whispered

some still shout

 

many from agony, disbelief

 

all these bibles of a want

 

what to do? what to do with them?

 

cave deeps guessed, old gods addressed

 

and then the story done to death

 

as sky’s my conch wash ear to

desert for a waste

track on

 

high up with the tune in my branches

lost prayers!

 

you might have sent yourself

 

what have they to do with us?

 

fervour of a dream this weather

 

had caught in cloud rafters else

clerks had filed mid-air

 

now they fall

as if a spring clean there

as if the management had changed

 

we’re all of a wonder hands up and catch

yes, they’re a kind of record

 

everyone wants a souvenir

 

and every prayer

like us as far disconsolate

just as we are

having never made it

to heaven 








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