AMEN
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Jefferson Adams
Jefferson Adams is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. His
poems, essays, and photographs have appeared in Antioch Review, Blue
Mesa Review, CALIBAN, Hayden's Ferry Review, Huffington Post, the
Mississippi Review, and Slate among others.
By Jefferson Adams
Published on 05/21/2002
Lord, let this world choke
On its ragged masses,
Let it gag on its damned,
Its guilty and guiltless--no,
Allow no innocent souls,
But guide them all, hand
In hand, not to heaven,
But to some high spot of land
Of their own, where they can be
The last to see the darkness fall
And let them rest there, all
And be whole.
Copyright © Jefferson Adams, 2002. All Rights Reserved.
Lord, let this world choke
On its ragged masses,
Let it gag on its damned,
Its guilty and guiltless--no,
Allow no innocent souls,
But guide them all, hand
On its ragged masses,
Let it gag on its damned,
Its guilty and guiltless--no,
Allow no innocent souls,
But guide them all, hand
Lord, let this world choke
On its ragged masses,
Let it gag on its damned,
Its guilty and guiltless--no,
Allow no innocent souls,
But guide them all, hand
In hand, not to heaven,
But to some high spot of land
Of their own, where they can be
The last to see the darkness fall
And let them rest there, all
And be whole.
Copyright © Jefferson Adams, 2002. All Rights Reserved.