PROVE ITSELF TO BE

PROVE ITSELF TO BE

inspire me
write me a poem
where each line travels forever
journeys through the abyss
finds the light

and when you find the light
bring me back a tiny gleam
a small sprinkling
nothing Betelgeuse, nothing
                                     Aztec
nothing spotlight on
the stage, searchlight at
Belsen-Belsen

but fairy tale forests you
can do me too
but no
    Hansel & Gretel house, nor
immaculate little for
Kamp Kommandant
and his spouse
and their
endearing toddler

inspire with great epic tales
with which I can regale
aforementioned
toddler
    that he might become
even after this horrible,
treacherous start,
truly
   incandescent, fellow
with an unfathomably deep
humanity

redeem the world through
the seeming impossibility
of his own redemption

hard to quantify, even venture
an estimate
        as how crucial to
our salvation,
   beyond inspirational such

a turn for the better
             could, when the final
reports are
in
   prove itself to be