Grex Writing Conference

View Responses

Grex Writing Item 74: Let Me Say a Prayer for You
Entered by gerund on Wed Apr 20 08:33:58 UTC 1994:

Let Me Say a Prayer for You


let me say a prayer for you,
because i may never meet you
and because i have come to love you

since you have restored to me
a faith in the possibilities of goodness,
since you have given me happiness,

knowing i may never be able to thank you,
and that what you have done for me
is personal and perhaps irrelevant to you,

knowing this let me pray that

you have goodness and a wonderful life
that you may be spared the searching and strife
and that the End of Everything may be for you
everything i pray it may be for me

i wish you happiness and possitive experience
and i pray that
my ideal picture of you
will not degrade the real things
i wish for you.

may you continue to your purpose and meaning.


11-9-92
GEP

2 responses total.

#1 of 2 by kami on Wed Apr 20 19:08:46 1994:

I really like this- it's about the best you have posted here, I think, for
conveying its message in a clear and strong way.  Are you satisfied with the
last stanza? Some of the words seem a bit long and abstract/weak for the 
clear simplicity of the rest.  A good point to make, though.

#2 of 2 by gerund on Mon Apr 25 05:56:07 1994:

it might be the only poem that gets to the heart of a lot of things.

Response not possible - You must register and login before posting.