I Turn to Prayer
R.P. Ericksen
Dear God,
We live in dangerous times.
This free-will thing
has come back to bite us
once again,
not that I'm complaining,
for free will still seems
better and far more interesting
than the alternative,
and I like to think
we actually have
free will, so that
my wandering path through life
has been partly my own creation
and the mess we have made
of the world might be
partially within our power
to heal,
though this lobbing of munitions
back and forth,
each side more and more irate
at the refusal of the other
to own up to its evil
and give in, this
has gotten out of hand
once again,
and I fear that we, Lord,
and I speak here
as an American,
I fear that we
have gotten a little carried away,
a little drunk
on this single-super-power thing,
so that I was wondering,
if you still deal in miracles, that is,
whether you might look down
on that recovering drunk
in the White House,
and perhaps you could reprise
the burning Bush routine,
the one with spontaneous combustion
where nothing else catches fire
to right or to left,
but people sit up and take notice,
and maybe you could do this
by November, 2004,
so that this demonstration
of which side you're really on
might knock some sense
into my fellow voters.
I ask this with thanks, in advance,
and in a spirit of greater humility
than might appear at first glance.
Amen.
-- R.P. Ericksen (October 29, 2003)
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