In Secret
by Stephen Damon
But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret…
—Matthew 6:6
Outside my open window
Diesel engine garbage trucks
Make their morning rounds
Through quiet city streets
Still asleep beneath
A sky of twilight gray.
But I am awake, sitting
Beside an empty altar
In a candlelit corner
Of my hidden life
Praying without words
In secrecy of shadows.
Bows,
Stephen
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