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drownout | Poem

 
Drown Out

God tries to fill
a church with light
He never
succeeds

Or maybe
He uses darkness
to accent
His point

The windows
bleed sun
It drowns out
the pastor

shifts focus
from the sermon
to Himself

A hundred souls
sequestered in pews
None listen

Each wonders
what God is doing
on His day off

c2001 by J. Kevin Wolfe