Surrender

I am so small

in the midst of it all

I stand here wanting,

Hoping

You hear me at all


My silent screams

deafen my ears

My eyes are filled

with a river of tears

Let them flow -

They trickle

compared to the waters below


I am nothing, 

least I feel that right now

Why is my heart burning

inside my chest?

Seems like I’d know how

to trust you 

by now


But I see a mountain

I never can climb

And you ask me

to move it aside

“Have faith”

Thought I really did

But I wake this morning 

like some petulant kid


‘They’ speak of high heavens

All I can see is a path

The glory may come 

but I still have to ask

Can you please

ease my troubled beliefs?

Because I don’t have the faith

like they do

am I less than these?


I trust you with mornings

when I can’t see the sun

When my eyes, red and puffy

have already become

Tired

of hurting again

Please dear lord,

trying to surrender

All


07/11/25

clc



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