A Mystic Prayer For the Broken
** A Mystic’s Words for the Broken **
The endless prayer
Paces alert in the old cobblestone alleyways
In the nearly abandoned
Neighborhoods where sounds
Carry easily and echo even all
Footsteps and cries —
The endless prayer
Goes on, ready to listen whenever
Called by the Holy Spirit
To intervene, to bring
Voice to the souls
About pleas heard
Bouncing off the cobblestones;
Rattling the old tenement’s windows;
Distressing the attendant angels,
Who quickly retrieve their armor
And join the endless prayer,
Lingering in the passages
Of the soul’s aria for healing
For the despairing hearts
Having lost peace,
Lost love.
Hurt carries the echoes
From the cobblestones to the clouds.
The endless prayer rains.
Drowned hearts have no tears.
Flooded streets do not echo.
The thirsty soul sighs
Along with the present angels,
Who take up the leitmotif of
The endless prayer.
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(c) sally young eslinger 9/29/22
Thanks be to God…
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