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Return of the Insomniac Prodigal
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By Famida Basheer
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Return of the insomniac prodigal

Deep in the night
this cobbler's vice
grips satanic upon the ankle
of my speeding soul.
I kick and thrash and hasten
to where a myriad psalms
echo the loss of reason spent
within without the sanctum doors
And I look down at my naked feet
and retrace to seek the cobbler bent
to haggle back His clogs of wood
and soothe the nail that bleeds my heel.
Ah how they bled His hands His feet!
His crown my thorns unglorious for
a plaintless life that hung and clung
to heels like me!


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Submitted: Saturday, October 4, 2003

Last Updated: Saturday, January 26, 2013

About the Poet
Wife, mother,grandmother (Love that part best!) writer, editor, content writer, gardener, bird lover.


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