Banishing all anxiety
Of course I doubted in my
grandfather's Evangelical faith-healing
powers, with hands raised over the
hopeless, the afflicted, banishing all
anxiety, and fear, and loss,
and sadness, expunging the soul to
be free once again. And then there are
moments where I want to have his 'powers'
and efface the blots of affliction
of my intimates. Lo, how I wish they had
his followers' faith. Lo, how I wish I could
take my hand and wipe the anguish away.