top of page

I Prayed Today

​

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

​

©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

​

©1995

bottom of page