Afflicted
all these years
with no one
to help me.
The water stirs –
another
gets in first.
These others here –
competitors
together,
losers
together.
Hope has brought us –
despair grips us!
"Get up
and walk!"
I cannot,
yet at his command,
new life
and hope
surge through me.
Now to walk
no more
in selfish
sinfulness
but in his way.