muttering to an old friend

If I asked you to pray for me.. . would you?
Or if you can not, out or principle and conviction, might you send an encouraging word to an old friend?
(would you still consider me a brother?)
Have you ever felt abandoned?
Please don't forget me in your fame and fortune.
Slightly more broken than usual,
Yet still in love with resurrection.
Always sentimental,
Yours truly,

As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motion of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

- Wendell Berry