Save Me
At thirteen I am competing with James Joyce,
encouraging pain, at the very least discomfort.
See me fervently praying,
waiting to receive the Communion host.
My knees more than ache, then burn,
I bless the wooden pew causing this necessary pain and
believe implicitly Christ will save me.
Tom Kelly’s most recent collection Walking My Streets is the thirteenth published by Red Squirrel Press and explores Kelly’s life and changing face of his native north-east of England.