The Book, by Jessica Schafer

Jessica Schafer is a Resident Director at a Christian university in British Columbia, Canada. On the side, she reads voraciously and is training to become a spiritual director. She and her husband of 2.5 years share their apartment with over 600 books and a fish named Squishy. She blogs her poetry at http://jessicaschafer.wordpress.com.

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The Book

if this were a bedtime story
I would leave out the brother who murdered
and the one that raped
if this were a bedtime story
I wouldn’t include a father sacrificing his daughter
or a husband killed for
his wife
if this were a bedtime story
I would skip over the helplessness, hopelessness
and the misguided dreams of humanity
if this were a bedtime story
there would be no confusion, uncertainty
faith would be easy

but it isn’t a bedtime story
and we are growing up

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