How can you kill what cannot be killed?
Why weep for those who have been taken?

Why furnish ammunition to the enemy
Who hammers jewels from your tears?

Who am I to say, 'This is the end! '
When I am the world's ignoramus.

I can't outsmart the market
But I second-guess my God?

I have made a list of every known sadness
And set it ablaze on a paper plate.

Let others twist their hankies at night.
I am free of all that forever.



(2006)

Mike Finley

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-prayer-in-defiance-of-grief/