Prayer

So many words

Floating in the air

Trying to reach you

From us below

We send up requests

We plea in anguish

Asking you to help us

To come amidst our problems

Every night, every day

Every hour, every moment

Prayers are being said

Waiting for your answer

Do you answer us?

Yes you do every time

But it is not always a yes

Sometimes it’s a maybe

Sometimes we get a no

And we don’t understand

Why we prayed for healing

But the person passed away

We need to trust in you

To realise that you always hear us

Even as all our prayer mingle together

You always hear our individual voices

You are a God who is never distracted

You focus on us always

Listening to our prayers

And hearing them clearly

Jo Anne Kennedy

September 2017