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Date Posted: 13:05:44 10/21/02 Mon
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: webcacheB10a.cache.pol.co.uk / 195.92.168.172
Subject: Re: The End of Prayer and Sin
In reply to: Gray Squirrel 's message, "The End of Prayer and Sin" on 03:33:35 10/16/02 Wed

An intriguing title but I do like the ideas contained within as well as the small attention to detail - and love that last stanza

'There's a curve to her fingers,
Requested,
A calm to her hands.'

R

>The End of Prayer and Sin
>
>There is a hideous way
>To explain everything,
>And a delightful way.
>
>So often those who
>Speak of honesty
>Speak only of hideousness.
>
>I must admit, I prefer the
>Morbid calm of darkness
>To the nervous day...
>
>Only because I
>Prefer to heal,
>Than ache...
>
>There is a black
>Condemning way,
>And a way rewarded.
>
>There is justice,
>And there is justice
>Forever undone.
>
>I would spin a song for her,
>If only to her fingers,
>Curved with sleep.
>
>So much preferred to
>Any words
>We'll say.
>
>No matter life, or death,
>Or God, or man
>And his matters...
>
>There's a curve to her fingers,
>Requested,
>A calm to her hands.
>
>-Gray Squirrel

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Re: The End of Prayer and Sin -- Lori S. Maynard, 16:45:49 12/10/02 Tue