change

BY WENDY VIDELOCK










Change is the new,
improved
word for god,
lovely enough
to raise a song
or implicate
a sea of wrongs,
mighty enough,
like other gods,
to shelter,
bring together,
and estrange us.
Please, god,
we seem to say,
change us.

Source: Poetry (January 2009).
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/182639

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