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THE ONLY GOD I NEED

12-16-2009 at 10:40:26 AM

THE ONLY GOD I NEED

…sea salt drinks from my lips,

and everything is primal

like the sun before time: silence

speaks without sound, witnessing

my stillness:…

(from: THE ONLY GOD I NEED)

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.