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Pray For Me, Too
"Yet saints their watch are keeping,
"Their cry goes up, 'How long'"?
---Samuel J Stone, "The Church's One Foundation"
Too many unpaid bills;
too many health-threatening ills;
and always something in the house to go wrong:
problems come in like a bumper crop;
another shoe always waiting to drop.
In this ever compounding need,
I can only plead
(with saints gone on, ahead) "Oh, Lord, how long?"
Starward
[jlc]
4 me the cry
is "How?" - Will there be unbearable pain - ans: probably. How long do I suffer: A long time. The shoe drops. I liked this reality poem ~allets~
Thank you. It is the
Thank you. It is the anticipation of the shoe's drop that really rattles my nerves.
Starward