Sister Poetry

“I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA.”

That’s helpful.

We like precise parameters

and clean, clear closure!

But it’s in among those OTHER letters—

All twenty-two of them---that we

live our “lives of quiet Desperation”!

If only once those inconclusive jottings

would arrange themselves into a word,

a phrase, a sentence that would MEAN!

Merely a suggestion, God, but have You ever

thought of shortening your alphabet?

And---pardon me---but

MUST IT BE IN GREEK?