The hardest lesson of the sinner <br />Is that all is in you, and nothing in him. <br />Why are we given these garrulous minds <br />If the end-challenge is only to submit? <br /> <br />God take away my anguish <br />By taking away everything. <br />I cannot save my life, <br />I cannot save the things I love. <br /> <br />Plant this wisdom into me, <br />Drill deep and release the bulb <br />That will bubble out of the ground like iris <br />After every dry season. <br /> <br /> <br />(2006)<br /><br />Mike Finley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-prayer-at-planting-time/
