more ordinary time

God
may I pray to you
and ask you
and
I guess I shall
anyway

in fact
it seems we spend the day together
more elusively at night
though that’s
on me

if I guess there is a legacy of night
and
mystic struggle

and in the quiet from cessation
a closeness
to you might be realized

but I
don’t know
it seems I have you through the day
that is
you have me and with permission
I shall relate through
prayer
and the small thank-yous in the hours frankly
in a foreign
foraged land
no good
since Eden
yet
it’s all we have

by day or
night
in waking moments
ordinary
all the time
it’s that
I know you as I try
and
as I live
while in all hours and seasons
you know me

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