Hands Enough To Lift Me Up

great big following
as has Michael Jackson
or Stevie Wonder

I’d not need to lean upon anyone heavily
were my books as delicious
to as many as these men’s/
such men’s music

my need is a larger circle of followers, of fans

to thee I pray oh Lord for men/
for fish to buy, to bite
what’s sweet on my line

tidbits of verse, of words, of wisdom

aren’t people around the globe
dying daily, hourly
for the oxygen in these poems
I breathe life into


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
11:08 a.m. 25/may/07