You Pray to Be Included in the Book

Music: Maio Maduro Maio.
By Lovira.
Performed by Lovira at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Subscribe to this site on Substack

Subscribe to this site on YouTube

Subscribe to this site on Medium

Follow this site on Facebook

Follow this site on Instagram

Hear me read
the poem as
an MP3 file.

Watch me read
the poem as
a YouTube video.

Alpha List

Jewish Poems

Poems for the
High Holy Days

Religious
Poems

About This
Site

Poems for
Free

Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

You pray to be included in the book
Of life before your yearly doom is sealed,
Making sure no sin is left concealed,
Knowing that there'll be no second look.
In words that are sincere, with guilt unfurled,
Perhaps you pray with some uncertainty,
Poised between belief and poetry,
Unwilling now to take it literally,
Remnant of a strange and ancient world.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.





[about this site] [poems for free] [poem of the week]
[site policy] [about me] [links]