guardian

I talk with
well
her or him
or another through
the day

I feel the nudges even when I’m going
unaware

to guide
to wake up enough
with
enough
to change direction or consider
at least
another way

that might be safer
as
well as approvable

mostly
it’s the nudging
and
occasionally
well
often
with words

so it goes through the hours
in
my weakness
say
my exhaustion when
too tired to think on virtue

and then
like a feather or a talon
be
pushed gently in the miraculously
sponsored
way

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