this dead ear

[thisnewday]

all for the sake
of this young child,
i pray to an old god who,
even in my own childhood,
was said by some
to be dead;

how, i wonder,
has it come to this:
that all the wisdom,
all the hope,
all the promise,
poured from my own life
into this innocent vessel,
now stands
to be lost

because all
that i have left
is to pray
into this dead ear.

LPK
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