I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.
I am not yet born, console me.
I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me,
on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me.
I am not yet born; provide me
With water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees to talk
to me, sky to sing to me, birds and a white light
in the back of my mind to guide me.
I am not yet born; forgive me
For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words
when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,
my treason engendered by traitors beyond me,
my life when they murder by means of my
hands, my death when they live me.
I am not yet born; rehearse me
In the parts I must play and the cues I must take when
old men lecture me, bureaucrats hector me, mountains
frown at me, lovers laugh at me, the white
waves call me to folly and the desert calls
me to doom and the beggar refuses
my gift and my children curse me.
I am not yet born; O hear me,
Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God
come near me.
I am not yet born; O fill me
With strength against those who would freeze my
humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,
would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
one face, a thing, and against all those
who would dissipate my entirety, would
blow me like thistledown hither and
thither or hither and thither
like water held in the
hands would spill me.
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me.
Otherwise kill me.
Prayer Before Birth
Anne Clark
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Abuse Alarm Call All Night Party All We Have To Be Thankful For An Ordinary Life Armchair Theatre As Soon As I Get Home At Midnight Boy Racing Bursting Cane Hill Closed Circuit Come In Contact Counter Act Echoes Remain Forever Echos Remain (For Ever) Empty Me Feel Flight Through Sunlit Clouds Fragility Full Moon (Herbert Pryne Remix) Heaven Heaven Homecoming Hope Road I Of The Storm Ice, Moving [Instrumental] Interruption Killing Time Last Emotion Leaving Longing Stilled Lost To The World Lovers Audition Lovers Retreat Makes Me Feel At Ease Nida Nightship Nothing At All Now ! Our Darkness Our Darkness [*] Our Darkness 12" Remix Pandora's Box Pandoras Box Poem For A Nuclear Romance Poem Without Words 1 - The Third Meeting Poets Turmoil No. 364 Poets Turmoil Number 364 Power Game Red Sands Red Sands Seize The Vivid Sky Self Destruct Shades Short Story Short Story (Party Mix!) Short Story [Party Mix] Short Story Party Mix Silent Prayer Sitting Room Sleeper In Metropolis Sleeper in Metropolis [*] Sleeper in Metropolis [Sleepers Revenge Mix by Sve... So Quiet Here Sognsvann Swimming That We Have Been Here The Haunted Road The Interruption The Last Emotion The Lovers Audition The Moment The Power Game The Sitting Room The Spiining Turning Of The Summer Earth The Spinning Turning of the Summer Earth The Windmills of Your Mind This Be The Verse Tide True Love Tales Unstill Life Up Waiting Wallies Weltschmerz White Silence Windmills of Your Mind World Without Warning
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