Would You Pray For An Injury? Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Would you pray for an injury?
pray for an injury for empathy?
to increase wisdom sensitivity?

real injuries are never a competition miraculous
but similar injuries can create victim conscientious
incite understanding into shared experiences mirages

I had asked prayed to God before this
to understand some individual experiences
experiences in handicapped mind sense

deprivation within children teenagers adults
trapped within these barrier experiences
communicative damaged interactive abilities

consider consequences trapped in inability?
if it were you mentally emotionally physically?
you who were unable to interact in society?

due to various physical impairments?
due to accidents; inherited or birth defects?
due to circumstances crippling personalities?

I prayed for this in heartfelt prayer repeatedly

over days weeks to understand life insecurities
crises crucial decisive event traumatic calamities
to understand personalize conflict tension crises

I thought God would give me an instant insight
an instant awareness divine comprehension delight
alas true insight lives birth born through conflict!

I got to live through it
I got prayer answered to live through it
true insight demands we live through it

consider to live life lessons sowing
only experience is true depth knowing
experience teaches over life time flowing

it is always necessary to be careful what
you ask God for when God may grant
such knowing as a burden appointed lot!

I get a lot of knowledge coincidences like that
wisdom knowledge is not a rabbit pulled out of a hat
hardship experiences bad nobly born teach a fact!

I had asked prayed to God before this
to understand some individual experiences
related to being as a handicapped mind sense

deprivation within children teenagers adults
trapped within these barrier experiences
communicative damaged interactive abilities

consider consequences trapped in inability?
if it were you impaired mentally emotionally physically?
you who were unable to interact in society?

I prayed to understand this in heartfelt prayer repeatedly


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