My Prayer-Poem for the 23rd day of Lent, Thursday 11 March 2021

My Prayer-Poem for the 23rd day of Lent, Thursday 11 March 2021


You Shall Not Covet


That final commandment of ten
about wanting again and again
what is not ours to take
may explain the heartache
which is suffered by women and men.


For the wanting becomes something more
than a cursory glance through a door
or an innocent thought
as a vision is caught
of two multiplied into four.


And then evil, which lurks ever near,
slowly escalates safe to severe
translates thoughts into deeds
and insatiable needs
cause brutality, violence and fear.


©️Mark Andrew Smith
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