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Jonathan Moya
Poems
Sep 23
Baptism on a Sunday race day in Daytona
It wasn’t a river
just a pool,
more of a hotub,
set off from the sanctuary—
and when I was eased
into the water
I didn’t see God
in the streams above.
And I didn’t see her
lost in the thunder
of the racetrack
just beyond the church.
She was beyond
my line of sight,
soaking up congratulations
from the congregation.
The pastor gave me
a gentle pat on my back,
shook my hand, three times,
handed me a towel
and welcomed me to the flock.
I was just another sinner saved
and left to go his own way,
certain in the faith
that God will provide.
She said she would meet
me back at her place
after the potluck.
I wrang the towel
of every last drop
and handed it
back to her.
I walked back to
my old white Civic,
turned it over
and felt the
cool Jesus breeze
of the A/C hit my face.
The voice inside
told me to do the
first thing I heard
on the radio.
I heard Ray Charles
in his blindness
croon to me:
“Hit the road Jack
and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Jack
and don't you come back
No more.”
#baptism
#disillusionment
#isolation
#belief
#disbelief
#scared
#mundane
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Jonathan Moya
63/M/Chattanooga, TN
(63/M/Chattanooga, TN)
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