Turning Point
for Victor Oladokun
and Kathy Edwards

i.
throbbing like a toothache
these vehicles passing
people with their noisy music

similarly, oh God
I want them extracted

ii.
God is not as real to me
as a mountain to climb
as vines to swing on

I want him to be

he is like mist to me
I reach and I reach

apart from my pen
at times my erect penis

my fist is empty

iii.
has Jesus Christ
been all used up
like sandpaper

is Christianity intended
to become useless, weak

like one bag
to make tea
for every body


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
10:53 p.m. 11.01.09