Are you what I want you to be? <br />I have no way of knowing <br />All I know is what I see <br />And there’s naught but anguish showing <br /> <br />For once in a long time <br />Made me believe <br />Perhaps the pain will recede <br />But I am a naïf <br />Are you an innocent? <br />I am so easily deceived <br /> <br />If I believed as others do <br />That a prayer to a god would be heard <br />I’d fall to my knees <br />And I’d pray for you <br />Is that not a little absurd? <br /> <br />My prayer would begin <br />With a fervent wish <br />To summon a holy power <br />To visit you with blade and flame <br />To cleave your soul <br />And pluck out the pain <br />And cauterise your quickening frame <br />And wash away those gothic stains <br />And bind the wounds of your sadder days <br />With the rapturous grace of the hour <br /> <br />And the breath of an angel would utter a song <br />Transporting you heavenwards <br />Where you belong <br />And you’d sleep with the peace <br />Of the gentle and kind <br />With healing beneficence flooding your mind <br /> <br />And those that oppress and distress and afflict you <br />Would stop with amazement compassion and awe <br />At the light footed dancer bright eyed with happiness <br />At the radiant soul of the dearly beloved <br />At peace with herself <br />And at one with the universe <br />Amelie Anonymous, Amelie reborn <br /> <br />If I had a god, <br />That’s what I’d pray <br />Ah what the hell <br />I will anyway <br />And if some one else’s god <br />Happens to hear ….<br /><br />David S Dennis<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/94-a-prayer-from-an-atheist/
