I Prayed Today
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I prayed today for your happiness to return
For your heartbreak and forlorn to be torn from you
I Prayed Today for our broken heartedness to merge into a living poem of love
This dismay thrust on you by the careless has moved sadness where joyous love once dwelled so I prayed today that sorrows die today
I Prayed Today that you will see love in me and we will love in harmony. Today I wipe your tears as you did for me; hold you close with loving harmony so dismays will never seep in your soul
This day I prayed
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©2015
RAIN
I remember the days of my youth
walking in the rain I sang
“Even me Lord, even me, let some
drops of mercy, happiness, grace
fall on me”
As the rain fell I didn’t know if I wanted
to wipe away the salted tears or salty
raindrops from my face
I knew I couldn’t wipe the tears from my heart
as I cried for myself, my wants and have-nots
Today in the rain I sing for the despairs of my
boy child, my girl child and every child living
in this dastardly place
I remember the days of my youth, even then Lord
did cries go up of sorrow filled spaces and changes
to hearts not possessions
Cries in the rain washed down polluted sewers
Building dreams on fathers wishes, I’m wishing
for warlessness and laughter in the streets
I hear the black and white 70’s and Mama singing
with Mahalia and the Ward Singers in the radio
Today I cry for times gone by and the child who must
endure tonight
Let your mercy, compassion, protection and grace
Fall Lord
Even these
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©1995