Pray nearer to ground reality

Uncertainties abound

thereabouts of my life-- pain aside.

Nothing interested me,

save it had some deeper stake.

So I found everything commonplace

and nothing to look forward to,

save my own past revisiting.

Too tired and vexedI looked upward,

listened to Him… with an ear

pressed to the ground.

Surprisingly those crawling things

stopped entering me

as He answered.