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