How can you kill what cannot be killed? <br />Why weep for those who have been taken? <br /> <br />Why furnish ammunition to the enemy <br />Who hammers jewels from your tears? <br /> <br />Who am I to say, 'This is the end! ' <br />When I am the world's ignoramus. <br /> <br />I can't outsmart the market <br />But I second-guess my God? <br /> <br />I have made a list of every known sadness <br />And set it ablaze on a paper plate. <br /> <br />Let others twist their hankies at night. <br />I am free of all that forever. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />(2006)<br /><br />Mike Finley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-prayer-in-defiance-of-grief/
