Prayer is the plank
that connects one anxious moment
to the next – supporting us – tho’ it bows
in the middle – tips to one side, then the the other;
toward each evil that besets us; bending to the
brink of its breaking point, or ours.

Prayer supports and lifts us,
moves us upward, away – like Sisyphus
without end….Prayer, after prayer, after prayer.