Poem from: Coattails of the Saint
PATHETIC AS IT MAY SEEM Pathetic as it may seem this entire world sits on a table in a little spotlight in God’s Throne…
The drunken soldier broke down
the wrong door
Inside was a circle of saints
lifted off the ground
To the sound of gunfire
a really supernal yellow light
shone round them
His jaw dropped
and his heart stopped
In the dark of the room
he saw his place
At the cost of so much blood
so little decency
The saints admitted him
to their convocation
The rest of the world went
dizzily into the background
The rest of the war popped in his
ears like distant fireworks
The young soldier
lifted off the ground
Suddenly his age didn’t prevent him
from becoming ancient
The hearts in that room
were made of bronze and
royal copper
In their burnished surfaces
the Face of God shone resplendently
The drunken soldier
broke down the wrong door
Inside was a family of saints
huddled together
In the death of decency
so much bloodshed
The circle of saints
admitted him to their company
The drunken soldier
broke down the wrong door
Inside they
broke bread
1/22/2008 (from The Fire Eater’s Lunchbreak)
Categories: Poems