I HAD A CUP OF WATER.
The room was full of cots where the wounded lay.
I went to the moaning man near by
I knelt near his eldered form
I sipped one sip from the cup
I closed my eyes and raised my face to heaven, praying in the language
That has no sound to awaken
Yet all the force to, inside.
I slid my hand behind his head
I lifted his poor tired head up enough to
I put the cups to his lips he
Enough to drink, he did
He shuddered, he drew in sharp air,
I said: “May you never thirst
May you be blessed”
He fell back heavy on my hand in dreamless intense sleep
I slowly laid his head back down.
I went to the next cot.
I drank a sip from the cup.
This one was unconscious.
I dipped my finger into the water
I smeared it across lips parched and silent
A sigh. A deeper sigh.
Rolling over, hands moved to pull the thin blanket up.
I smiled, tears dripping into the cup from my eyes.
I looked to heaven with eyes open this time
My prayer still non-verbal,
Yet illustrated with blessed tears.
Over on the other side of the room
On one cot
Four children lay, curled and huddled within and around each other
Their mother lay on the floor next to the cot
Her sleepers hand feebly draped in the brown tussled hair of one of them
I moved the vessel from one hand to the other
Dipped all my fingers inside the clear liquid
Sprinkled a benediction upon them all
And left the water for when they rise.
Author notes
May you never thirst.
Written September 4th, 2005
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This is amazing ...
and you've done a really masterful job with it. I don't really see how you could do much to improve on this, and really there's no reason to attempt it anyway. All in all, good job.
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wicked-A-friggin-cool!
Wow, very powerful. And yes this is quite worthy of the categories hope and spiritual. I was simply amazed by reading this, your work grips me and doesnt let go. Well done!
-Havoc -
sad read. but good job with writing it.
Blu -
Magnificent
Helping to heal the wounded and needed it is the best thing that anyone could do. I am a forming med student and I know what it is to have a heart like yourself. This was a magnificent write and wonderful message to all of us readers. Thank you for sharing such amazing piece. ~Elba~
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THANK YOU!!!
It was a night-travel thing. I have been traveling at night and 'helping/healing" people it has been SO INTENSE ever since this like poison snake bit me and its a long story but anyways I WAS THERE and this was my early-mornin-jus-woke-from-sleep ting onnit, and
wow. Don't even remember posting it! Now THAT is raw and honest, ey?
Bless ya babes, back atch'cha soons
Aloha e! 3SE -
love for you.
Thank you!
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amazing
“May you never thirst
May you be blessed”
a sad poem, is was good and i love this line here, it made me think of a nun helping those in a hospitial of old times, it is an amazing and heart warming poem, good work. as always -
Lovely write and all just is so sad
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May you never thirst as well. Water is life. My mother used to tell me that. She is passed on but helps me from the grave, for her words always ring true in my heart. This story whether true or fictional is heartwrenching. To know that there are those who suffer so sickens my spirit. I, with you, say a silent prayer for the well-being of the sick, and the poor. Many blessing to you my new friend. You will forever be filled for you are a child of God. Go forward and deliver HIS WORD!
Connie -
this one made me cry you are a very good storyteller
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