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Prayer for Mercy

When asked who,
would I travel back in time to meet?
A frivolous question to to play with
To help a conversation

I might think of
a great writer like Hemingway or Dostoevsky or Shakespeare
a great musician/songwriter like Lennon or Bach or Cohen
A great painter/sculptor, Van Gogh or Picasso or Michelangelo or Rodin
or further back
a great figure from history such as King Arthur or Jesus
Jung, Plato, Solomon, Thomas, Auden, Yeats...

I have no doubt that all would grace me
And what learnings and insights might enrich a life

But in honesty, if the choice were there truly there, and it could be real,
I pray I could go back in years I’ve lived and re-meet the one I love, now too late in life where paths are not together.

I would forgo all other wisdom
And simply ask for Mercy
Written by BludSukka
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