Elf as a Christian (poem)

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She wants to be a Christian, wants to pray
doesn't pray, wants to, tries or tries to try
to be the thing she says she is, she tries
to speak with God, to be with God, to say

to him the things a Christian says
and live the Sabbath on the other days,
to rest within his presence, just
to rest not moving, not wanting to move
nor wanting not to, simply being there,

then doing all the other things she does
as one who is continually seen,
and acts as if God sees, because
the truth is that he does.
So she wants to be his because she is.

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