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Topic: Sibling(s) (05/01/08)

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• TITLE: By Moonlight's Lamp | Previous Challenge Entry
  By Henry Clemmons
  05/07/08
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My Kidney
aches
in lonely whispers
under sterile
white bed sheets.

I pray,
I pray,
I pray.

By moonlight’s lamp,
through undraped window,
doomed gazes
from blackened faces
hauntingly stare.

Glances of flashes
from
tear filled eyes
swirl from twisters
in
spinning dank darkness.

I pray,
I pray,
I pray.

I see his feet, bare, white.
His hands, calloused, strong.
His eyes tired, but focused firm.

My brother
My hero.

My kidney
aches
in lonely
whispers
under sterile
white bed sheets.

I pray,
I pray,
I pray.

By moonlight’s lamp,
through undraped window,
huts of windblown grasses
stifle moans of final breaths,
gasping,
grabbing
for my brothers
hand,
his voice,
his heart,
God’s gospel,
my kidney.

Tubes of
plastic
bottled air
and filtered blood
hum in my ear,
but my heart
hears
the fresh breaths
of Africans
young
Christians
new.

And,
I pray,
I pray,
I pray.

My kidney aches,
in lonely whispers,
under sterile
white bed sheets.

In moonlight’s lamp,
through undraped window,
I died,
yet lived.

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