prayer – Words & Music by Mike Power

on our knees

We have all been on our knees Haven’t we? We all feel the weight of our belly our chest our skull pushing down on our fragile kneecaps There’s a reason why we pray this way

I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Prayers

It’s not that I forgot how to pray But when you’ve lost faith, what’s the point? What if faith is the least of losses? Secular prayers Meditation and Daydreams Painting and Music and Fiction and Hollywood and Sexual Fantasies that somehow stay warm on the coldest nights And Memories Memories beyond the imagination ofContinue reading “I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Prayers”

The Artists’ Prayer

When I was small, I prayed. It connected me to something bigger than myself. Henry Miller prayed to a different god than the one I grew up with. We all pray to our own gods and goddesses. In 1934, the Apollo Theater opened in Harlem. Babe Ruth, in his last year as a Yankee, hitContinue reading “The Artists’ Prayer”