Prayer

Give me eyes that look like they see;

look like they are looking.

Give me a mouth that speaks when it is closed,

And blooms when it is open.

Allow me a laugh that curls like a baby’s toes,

And tears that weave life in frozen air.

Let my emotions fall like water on stones

Or bubble like a laughing brook.

Grant that my words strike like fists

on any hollow heart,

and echo cries of war on my own apathy, or

grant that they breathe empathy

into every empty lung.

Allow my pen to rip silence

Through the violence of men,

And bleed the black blood of a hero:

Purpose to the battle of a blank page.

Let my prayer not stop searching like a song

For a reflection of the whole,

And give me a soul to hold myself there,

And let all of this go.

Reviews

[Dulce de Leche]

Let my emotions fall like water on stones
Or bubble like a laughing brook.

My two favorite lines.

[kamikazebuterfli]

beautiful!!!

[He@ther!]

Wow!!:) such a great poem!!:) I love your imagry. "Grant that my words strike like fists on any hollow heart,
and echo cries of war on my own apathy, or grant that they breathe empathy into every empty lung."....beautiful. It was really good to read a piece like this!:) Keep writing more pieces like this!!!:)