THE AUCTIONEER

Maybe the problem is…

I am trying too hard

to be the wheeler-dealer,

the go-between, the fast-talker,

the auctioneer.

Maybe I’m the wrench

in the works.

Maybe I should go

straight to prayer

to do my bidding for me.

Maybe I should ask it outright:

Prayer, how do I pray?

And if I do…

Maybe the real Auctioneer

will wordlessly answer 

and serenity will become 

my Sotheby’s.