Intercession

There are times I still say a prayer of intercession,

When solitary meditation is not getting it done,

When I can’t even get back to neutral,

When I don’t even know how I got in reverse

And the brakes won’t work.

It is then

And only then

I seem

Most ready to reconsider a divine hand.

I know the hand by my tradition.

Even as I doubt its existence in the literal sense

I beg for its actual help.