Prayer: A Poem

Lord of anxiety and small troubles,
Lord of desolate mornings,
I have insulted the wind and sun;
forgive me.
Lord of defensive motionlessness,
I have slighted the moon;
forgive me.
For a mat on which to kneel, I repeat
the words of Bernard of Clairvaux:
“More deserving of blows than kisses,
I fear nothing because I love.”
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Glenn Hughes is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy (retired) at St. Mary’s University in Texas. He is author of numerous books, most recently From Dickinson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature (Missouri, 2020). He is also co-editor, with Charles R. Embry, of The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness (Missouri, 2017).

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