For Mark Knopler! Listen to him!

 ADVERSARY?

Friday, January 2, 2026
8:02 PM

(By: Karla Wagener, listening to Mark Knopler)

Lyrics are lost
In history,
Understood promptly
Painfully.

Maybe too late
Maybe on time
The dearest words
Remembered in rhymes.

I would break out of this shell
Would see heaven-out of hell.
Music has been a great healer,
Poetry the maximum teacher.

Paintings never fully understood,
Buildings construed of iron and wood.
And what a sincere prayer does
Is venom for unpleasant foes!