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featured poet – Peter Phillips

Painful Prayer

Last night I shut my eyes and felt a tear
so hot it singed a blemish on my face
and burnt the pillow with a painful prayer,
a dream of memories that won’t erase.
 
I often feel her hands, a smile and voice
that pull me to her, a kiss which flutters
in my mouth, comforts me with lips as moist
as breath and calms me till nothing matters.
 
So when I think of prayer, belief and hope,
I do not see bright sunshine fill the sky –
just shades of grey and how she tried to cope
when told she’d never hear a grandchild cry.
 
And now the moon has disappeared from sight.
the morning will be darker than first light.
 

Peter Phillips

in collection, Looking For You, 2001, Hearing Eye,
ISBN 13: 978-1-8708418-1-8

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