Seeking Solace.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 2/25/2009 10:38:00 PM
Fingers swelling, homework's piling & yet
I think I've made the right decision (:

You might find it ironic to see a poem on my blog esp if you saw my facebook status a few days back or figured that I am not a veryver religious person. But yeah, this was what we did with ccc today. Surprisingly, I find this subtle similarity between that and what I've been feeling over the past few days.

Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters out hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

Pray for us now. Grade I piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.

Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer-
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

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