CHURCH MUSIC I like to sing but not in church I find it hard to pray that way while in and out of tune I lurch tolling out words I'd never say I feel uneasy and distraught and get all knotted up inside Awkward inept and overwrought I cannot get those knots untied until the organ's final roar reluctantly diminishes it feels like half and hour before it fades away and finishes I almost pray for it to cease and let me sink back on my knees feeling a sense of sweet release delivered from those clamorous keys I find that last long shattering note has left me at a loss for words and murmur 'When I'm praying Lord let me leave singing to the birds.' -- Warren O'Connell, "Extended Wings 5" - an anthology of poetry, Rathmines Writers, Swan Press, Dublin (2004).