One Poem by Saren Coughlin

Presentation of a Virgin at the Temple

Look at them
They bow their foolish heads
Raise their arms
In praise
As the girl ascends
The marble steps
Beaming with unmistakable glory
Idiots
But me?
I turn my back to her
Disgust
A man being jostled about
Amongst the other spectators
He too looks away
The others look down on us now
But when the day comes
And the little girl’s prophecy does not
They will see!
They will see…

{Poem by Saren Coughlin}