REMEMBERING THE VOICE 

                                Do you still hear him
                              Daniel, as he talks to the mighty
                                  talks to them in his indirect way
                            and then –
                                                 turns to us
                             Always soliloquizing
                                     always speaking to himself
                                   that's what they thought
                               Or did he turn perhaps
                                                              to a hidden god in the clouds
                                          a god's presence
                                                                        in his heart, his dreams
                                                             that filled the cosmos, of his body

                                             He lay there, stammering
                                                  talking in his sleep

                                       he turned and turned
                                                             on the straw mat
                                                    his arms beating blindly

                                                           a demon, a god

                           “Righteousness  belongeth to thee”
                                                         that's what he called
                                             Repeating it
                                                           stuttering, as it seemed

                                “Righteousness belongeth to thee”
                                          “but to us,
                                                          confusion”
 

                                                                                         July 19, 2013
 

                                 The quotation is from the St.James version, Daniel  chapt.9, v. 7
 
 

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