Saturday, June 11, 2011

Door


I answer a knock at the door.

Have you heard the good news?
Jesus loves you!

I bare my teeth into a
semblance of a smile.

Dogma seeps

She hands me a magazine
that reminds me of Jimi Hendrix.
I hum softly, "All along the
watchtower"

I try to imagine what it was
like, hearing him for the first time.
I understand why they called it:

The Experience

that changed my life
is that first pain
that nestled and
nagged the life from me
a little every day.

I quietly close the door.

3 comments:

RA Journeys said...

This is great Sherry. You should really enter some of these in the Houston poetry contest. Do it!

tammy_albright1212 said...

Sherry, This is wonderful! Please enter it in the Houston poetry contest.

tammy_albright1212 said...

Sherry, You have such TALENT Girl! You must enter some of these in the Houston poetry contest. Yes do it!