For YOU, Terri

fifteen years
stuck between worlds
the dead living
as the living die

HER prayer

The state is my captor, I shall not want
They make me lie down on white linens
They hook me to feeding machines
They restore my body, forgetting my soul
They guide my family down paths of wretchedness
For HIS name’s sake
Even though I wander
Through the valley of the shadow of death
I fear their evil
For they will not release me
Their laws and their arguments
Do not comfort me

They prepare their case before you
In the presence of my FAMILY
They anoint THEIR heads with poison words
Your courts overflow
Surely sadness and misery will follow me
All the days of MY DEATH
And I will dwell in the valley between
Until YOU stand up for ME