Prayer
By John Burnside
Read by Marjorie Lotfi
Give me a little less
with every dawn:
colour, a breath of wind,
the perfection of shadows,
till what I find, I find
because it’s there,
gold in the seams of my hands
and the night light, burning.
Credits
Directed by Savannah Acquah.
This film is part of our eight-film series UK Global Majority Poets on Film 2025, created with WritersMosaic to expand the reach of four award-winning, global majority poets through the visual culture of film.
"Prayer" by John Burnside (Copyright © John Burnside, 2007). Reproduced by permission of A. M. Heath on behalf of the estate of John Burnside. Part III of “For a Free Church.”