Here To Pray

We’ve been through much

it would seem

enough for a lifetime

Am I out of touch

with this world

and the ways it’s changing

When I was a child

Seemed to me

that we knew what the problems were

It’s now out of hand

‘cross the land

people getting angry for anything

Why/How would/could that be

Seems we/I need

more of your Spirit, Lord

So I’m here to pray

not just say

Please come on down and help us/me, Lord

Because if you don’t

How could we/I

Expect to survive?

oh and Patience, Lord

Lord I need Patience, Lord

Please I need the grace

send down your Spirit to just be with people

and replace and see them, Lord

my/ our fear really see the people, Lord

and pride with love despite what’s on the outside

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I realize

that my job

is to fix myself and then my home

Could it be

hard for me

to work with strangers?

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I realize that I play a part in all of this

Praying to you doesn’t free me of the role that I play

It’s so easy to get angry when I think I am right

How many times was I wrong, but did not have to pay the price?