Napo 4/5/24: Blessings, Given and Received

 Today's prompt. Also, Thank you, Napowrimo.net for featuring yesterday's prompt on your website!

Bless me, Kitchen Sink, for I
have once again been selfish,
rinsing the reusable coffee filter clean,
clogging your drain up with the finer particulate
of yesterday's dregs. Drawn you deeper into the
mystery of the health of our septic system. Made
you an unwilling participant to my imperfection. I come
to you, a humble sinner, and beg you forgive my transgressions.

I bless you, Street Light with Faulty Bulb. Shine forever,
even when you are intermittently blinking, even when
you fail and those who walk beneath you are thrown to
the dark path of publicly-funded sidewalks, ones with
root systems pushing the tectonic plates of cement, 
ones that break up the Pangea that is this walkway.
They and I know your honest light will return. May
you shine with the purity of your being. 

Great communion of of the grocery checkout line,
let us pass through your fire, your slings, your arrows,
the small talk and insidious tabloid headlines, the
inevitable bagging of cumbersome goods. Let us
recognize our grace as other lines move faster.
We are, all of us, unclean and searching for nourishment.
Give us the clarity of self and the willingness to know
all about the 14 ways to use potatoes in the Crock Pot.
May we all know true salvation.