prayer #Poem by David Sparenberg

because I love life
genuinely
love the adventure of being alive
I must oppose you

you the enemy of life
destroyer of lives
you the betrayer

I need my love to be
free from politics
free from political rancor
deliberate chaos
and partisan animosity

I pray
to never again hear
the sound of your delusional voice
to no more see
the ugliness of your hateful face
not to be pressed beneath
the heavy threat of your shadow
not to dread
the venomous nightmare
of your vengeful mind
never more, never more haunted
by the corpse of your heart
and the cold spite you exploit
to squeeze the life out of life

I will not empower
not recognize
or ever more pollute
life’s precious time and focus
falling into the
grasp in your perfidious madness

because I love life love
the adventure of life
and life itself is freedom
I must oppose you

you who are
freedom’s enemy
you destroyer of lives
you the betrayer

because my dignity
requires integrity
because there is freedom
in integrity
and dignity and integrity
are strangers to you

I pray
to be scrubbed clean
of the stain of your corruption
to be purged
and morally liberated
from the stigma of your crimes

I need to reclaim
the simplicity of joy
to return
to the pursuit of happiness
realign
with the generosity of connectivity
to reconnect
within the wealth of friendships
and the good feelings
of honestly shared and amicable
relationships

I turn my back on
what you are
on resentment and your playbook
of plots and lies
I walk away
walk far, far away
I will not hear you more
I will not see you longer
will never concede
to give what you believe is
yours to take to
waste and to ruin

I pray now and forever
everywhere where
a face is where a voice is
and always
I’ll forget your name
you are nobody
I’ll wash away
your unclean memory
with the gentle
cleansing rain of mercy

so
to love life
to be a person in
love not the thing
the shameful loveless thing
you sought to make of me

I pray
and will go on – go on and on and on
good enough – great enough lovingly
without you

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David Sparenberg is a humanitarian & eco-poet, international essayist and storyteller. He has published four OVI eBooks in 2025, including the most recent, Eco Woke, andTroubadour& the Earth on Fire. OVI eBooks are Free to download, as contributions to global democracy, literacy and cost-free education. While David Sparenberg lives in he Pacific Northwest, he identities not only as a World Citizen but a Citizen of Creation. Democracy first, Biocracy to follow.

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