Harbinger: A Journal of Art & Literature | 2018-2019
Published by Texas Tech University
Published by Texas Tech University
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A HERMIT PRAYED
AND A GOD ANSWERED HIM
Tyler Seale
Way, way down in the red, red sands
You’ll find a small and barren stream
Where serpents writhe and spiders dance
And buzzards go to chat and dream
Way, way West on the wild, wild breeze
How many prayers are carried there?
The mesa hears, the sunset sees,
But no one answers, no god dares
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Way, way deep in the small, small grains
You’ll discover worlds you’ve yet to know
Where shackled men throw off their chains
Where hells and heavens heave and groan
Way, way out on the flat, flat earth
Where little grows and death is near
I’ve built my home and tend my hearth
No longer slave to pain and fear
Way, way down in the red, red sands
I look around and come to see
Some forgotten god’s forsaken land
Has given life again to me