God's Ear

I drank sorrow
and pissed its tears
into cupped hands
then folded them
in prayer
but god was silent,

I ate sin
became bloated with remorse,
knelt down and passed
a raucous whimper
of begged forgiveness
but god didn't hear

I waved a weary hand
to the heavens
but, busy, god didn't see
so I ate some more
and more still,

not that I hungered for it
as much as it seemed the
only dish being served
with a side of pain
so I ate that as well,

I ate pain
'til I shit its malevolent ghost,
god was in the next stall
but ignored my plea,

I wiped my confession
on graffiti walls
but god didn't read

so I flushed my religion
and chose fasting to "feeling"
as I wathced my hopes swirl and float,
be sucked down
into the porcelain throat of
faith,
vanished...

like my cries

into the empty bowl
of god's ear

7/14/09 Debbie Berk

Poetry

Premonition

Somewhere hidden
in the quiet
of this nervous calm
something sinister
waits
to wake......
the chaos
of a haunting
noise
that lingers for now
only the worried
whisper
of a maddening
hush
of ghosts......
that rise and hover
__Mysterious
in the heavy fog
of this shy light
moving slowly
through an eerie
stillness__
as a Warning
of the Darkness
that is to come......

11/04/09 Debbie Berk

Before Sleep The Dreamer Dreams

Passing like a swift breeze
we hang our dreams high
and bury our hopes deep
that we may someday reach,
dig our way to the stars
before we are one with the worm
and there is only bare earth
to hold the shadow of our bones,
only stone to remember the name
of our ghost......

9/05/09 Debbie Berk