By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Holy Ghost greatness arrives as invisible blessing, burial, wind, and water twisting from elsewhere, so prayer becomes surrender to a force that has already formed through the body.
The spirit cannot be seen, yet it is described through physical consequences: buried things, wind carrying remnants off, and water twisting in from another side. Hell is not denied but understood, which gives the blessing a harsh intelligence rather than comfort. "Something has formed / gone through you" makes prayer sound less like speech than transformation under pressure.
'Prayer' names an invisible force and proves it only by its consequences: 'this blessing / of the spirit / you can't see / That often times / understands hell.' Its instructions are stark surrender -- 'Relinquish all you got / Bury stuff and let / the wind take the rest' -- after which 'there will be water / twisting from the other side.' The closing 'Something has formed / gone through you' makes prayer less an act of speech than a transformation under pressure.