give us this day our daily bread.
every night
is my contrition
like the Mayans
praying for sunrise
every night
a new battle
to find wisdom
knowledge word thought
for the days to be
tolerable
every night
on the sacrificial altar
I set myself knowingly
between death and life
caught in limbo
the burden of Sisyphus
every night
I try to appease
the unpleasable
unappeasable god
and abraham slew Isaac
and the seed of
Europe one by one
every night a new religion
every night the same derision
every night a new contusion
every night the same conclusion
I weep and keep
the sleepless light burning
for some bleak salvation
every
single
night