My Best Prophecies
Once upon an inappropriate closure
To an altogether different poem from this one
(Which might or might not come to robust fruition),
I wrote this auspicious, if presumptuous, three-line stanza,
Believing I'd struck just the right chord
To let God know I'd recited His language of angels:
"And I've saved my best prophecies for what's yet to be:
Those millenniums, eons, eternities God promised me,
When He spoke to Avram and Moses."
As for that other poem I composed, so long ago,
I'd almost forgotten about it, until tonight,
When I focused, again, on those three discarded lines,
Which I've carried around with me, in my notebook,
Curious about why I excised them,
Even more intrigued as to what that stanza could mean,
The reason I've never expunged it from my thoughts,
Rather saved it for a future occasion,
As though it, standing alone,
Were a mystical scripture, testament, gospel, psalm,
Capable of disclosing who I was, am, just may be,
Assuming God's prophecies can really speak to me.
06/22/09 - (2)
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