When does a poem start to be a prayer?
Is poetry, at heart, a call to God?
And if it isn't, isn't it quite odd
How many points of overlap they share?
The call to something greater; how men dare
Aspire to the highest; how we plod
Down constant paths that other feet have trod
And look to be alike, but better where
The other feet have strayed. Do poems pray?
Do they displace the urge on which prayer feeds,
Answering in other ways those needs?
Or is it both, and can swing either way?
I doubt that prayer is emptied by a poem,
But neither is a poem just prayer's proem.
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