Seeking Blessing Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

Saint Marina of Antioch be praised:
That this may gain your intercession
And we who love you be delivered
From the devil dragon and temptation.

You took the evil one and threw him down
Jamming your left foot on his scaly neck,
Pushing his slavering maw to the ground,
Demanding ‘yield you scabrous wretch! '

Quickly he twisted - and then shook free -
Taking you whole within his ravenous jaws,
Swallowing your sacred body entirely,
At which your holy virtue rived his guts.

Breaker of the monstrous demon's substance:
Pray for us that we may live in heavenly grace.