Bless The Fallen

Bless The Fallen

Bless the fallen, the less than ghost faces

that haunt this cityscape.

Bless the one who cannot give, who cannot

nurse a broken heart.

Bless the one hardened by degrees, by small failures

that mount a life incapable.

Bless the proud bearer of truth who cannot be humbled,

blinded by spiritual vanity.

Bless the arrogant, the one who feels movement

only by force.

Bless the bearer of bitterness, who has no stronghold

but hate.

Bless the one who fails to see the birds fly, hear

the angels in their dreams.

Forgive us our canyons where self-pity reigns

and self-pity devours.

Hold us near the harbour light though the chaos of sea

be the only realm

we, as of yet, have known.

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.First published in “The Seventh Quarry, Issue 24” Summer 2016

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