something luminous

Here's one for the olden days...

from A Book of Luminous Things
edited by Czeslaw Milosz



A PRAYER THAT WILL BE ANSWERED
By Anna Kamienska



Lord let me suffer much

and then die



Let me walk through silence

and leave nothing behind not even fear



Make the world continue

let the ocean kiss the sand just as before



Let the grass stay green

so that the frogs can hide in it



so that someone can bury his face in it

and sob out his love



May the day rise brightly

as if there were no more pain



And let my poem stand clear as a windowpane

bumped by a bumblebee's head