'Poem for the Disappointed'

I posted an earlier variant of this poem shortly after
Cardinal Ratzinger was named as the new Pope:


Sequestered in An ancient hall,
-and praying- They await, 'The Call',
Churchly Princes -Princes all,

The throng awaits as in a thrall,
Teeming, swaying, on the mall,
and guessing,wondering, praying all,

But who is that one standing tall?
'Il Papa Novo' of them all!

( Some spirits rise, but others fall,
For some delirium, others gall )

O take me to the Wailing Wall....

The Holy Spirit dropped the ball.

-jorge999