Do you dream of a
white bearded angry savior
do you have angels on your shoulders,
do you chant words you don’t understand
do you feel anything change?
Do you pray to the God of retribution
denier of sinners who’ve sinned
do you pray to the moral majority God?
Do you pray to the green grass God
who grows the many things
to the wind God who carries the ancestral message,
to the Earth Goddess who cradles and shakes us to our senses,
to whom do you pray – do you feel a change,
are you filled with fear or cloaked in delight?
How do you pray?
Do you see some kind of Pentecostal bright light,
do you dare the ones called Satan
not to cross your holy line,
do you prostrate or stand up and shout out
your praise and jubilation to the divine?
Do you hear a change
as voices harmonize at hallowed sights,
is there a revelation – will you testify?
Shh!!! Don’t try to think so much.
Just tell me – How Do you pray?
Linda Joy Burke
1991 All Rights Reserved by Author
