A Prayer Poem by Kathryn Tyler King

My days were long and drawn away
Until I spied a young man one day.
He did smile with a twinkle and life
Which I know gave no sign of strife.

It was easy to love him you see
For our spirits in that moment were free.
Though my love for a former would last,
I felt closer to him than the past.

We knew not ourselves we would meet
Yet God in His grace knew our feet,
That we’d stumble and move in reach
for each other’s hands and speech.

Our Father in heaven this night looks black
For his love for me has perhaps gone back.
He does love me I know and I him
Yet he’s made himself miserable within.

Help him Father to look up not down,
And show him Your love not a frown.
He must be like a child again
In order for him to seek You not men.

If he knew that by giving up his “self”,
He could receive power to really live himself.
That same power that raised Jesus from death,
would raise him also from this earthly death.

I do love him, with all my heart and mind
with a love greater than I though kind.
I do beseech You Lord with prayers humble
that he’d surrender making no fumble.

Show him that this pain he has within
comes by Satan at his own whim.
Help me dear one to liven up your soul
For what is love if it can’t be made whole.