This poem submission by writer, Vincent Torres, has been selected as one of the finalists from our Spring 2021 Publisher's Club. The next period for submission will be held this fall.

“All that you touch, you change. 

All that you change, changes you.

The only lasting truth is change.

God is change.”

-Octavia Butler

[A change prayer: intentional adaption1]

Expand in me

like a solar flare snap

vibe my soul

like warm gamma waves

Paint my fate 

on the ancestral plains

     dark energy: searching. . .

for a world to call home 

[Like the best of us, looking for rest]

Conceive in me

to stay in control

of the dreaming, believing

in a word called love

Restore this body

to the origin soul

adapting, reacting 

to the stars above

[Death forgiving, peace descending, life ascending, God relenting]