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Donall Dempsey
Poems
Jan 2016
ZAK'S PRAYER
ZAK'S PRAYER
Little Zak
(just a little scrap of a chap)
with a deep Barry White voice
enquires(as he enquires
about everything) :
“Why is your hair white? ”
He listens patiently to the explanation
how after a head injury
“I went white overnight! ”
Being a good Christian child
he tells me
he will pray for me
for the “black to be back! ”
I’m very tempted
to dye it for the next day
just to prove his prayer
right.
When his fervent prayer
doesn’t turn the situation around
...he frets:
I tell him
God & me
are both happy
with it…like this.
“Really? ”
He asks.
“Really! ”
I affirm.
“Have it your own way then
but man...
It makes you look
old & grim!"
I grin
tell him that I am what I am
but that I can live with it:
"Ok..!" he sighs "...have it your own way!"
Written by
Donall Dempsey
Guildford
(Guildford)
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