Guanyin, Goddess of Mercy
I get more superstitious with age.
Heed the warnings of mystics and crones.
Believe less in random misfortune.
There's a mother who can stuff the devil in a bottle.
Heed the warnings of mystics and crones.
Guanyin listens to the cries of the world.
There's a mother who can stuff the devil in a bottle.
How much can she do to protect her child.
Guanyin listens to the cries of the world.
She must grow a thousand arms.
How much can she do to protect her child.
Sometimes the noise is unbearable.
She must grow a thousand arms.
To reclaim one more heart to kindness.
Sometimes the noise is unbearable.
Whose hand reaches out in the dark.
© 2022 Amy Uyematsu
Amy Uyematsu is a sansei (third-generation Japanese American) poet and teacher
from Los Angeles. She has six published collections - the most recent being That
Blue Trickster Time (2022). Her first poetry collection, 30 Miles from J-Town,
won the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Active in Asian American Studies
when it first emerged in the late 60s, she was co-editor of the widely used UCLA
anthology, Roots: An Asian American Reader.
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