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OLD MAN IN PRAYER
Old Man in Prayer

Dam the river of my thoughts
and fill my head with straw

Make of these eyes cold slabs of granite
so that the light of my being
is unable to flower again

Take this heart
that refuses to beat another rhythm
and reward my doubt
for it's smiling patience

Take my faith and grind it
into the earth
so that no man eats again
from this wretched tree of salvation

For I am wading into a frigid sea
of nothingness
alone.

Old Man in Prayer
from the Rembrandt
by Anna Winestein
Old Man in Prayer
Glynn Sharpe
1/17/99


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