The pleading of frailty
beseeching for succor
affirmation of faith
the timeless spectacle
of human need and incapacity
re-enacts in annual ritual
in pilgrimage and chant
the raising of arms
the clasping of hands
clutching at amulet
in all the Kachchativus
where men and women
have turned soil into sanctity
created the divining
in their image-elevation
crafted with the humility
of timeless infirmities
and mistaken divinities
taken nevertheless
from dust to church
to devotion
and re-reaffirmation
as one pathway to peace
as good as any other. 
