A Prayer To Be As Adam Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Lina Spies)
I

My Lord, here I do stand before you
as a man that You did create,
You do know me becoming a cell.
Where I did abundantly eat from the sinful fruit
and I do not need a gate at a garden
or do not have to go to Eden
to talk face to face with You.

II
The hearts of all people that do choose You are Your temples
and to You they are holy
where here now like in my childhood
I come to You
and do want to look with the same glace at myself and at life,
do want to trust You with the hope trust and love of a child

III
and see flowers and bees, insects like the dragonfly,
do notice beetles and a ladybird
and also various birds that do come and go
almost if I am standing in Your intact paradise
and the binding of bee to flower,
of everything that do pair with each other
and even man and woman,
I do not find in that which I do constantly observe
just that Your genuine love do radiate out of all the beauty

IV
and here were I am asking forgiveness for every sin,
I ask that You do steady my way,
do drive my enemies away into all directions
and do pull me closer and more near to Your fatherly heart,
I ask You to change my heart yet again,
do make it serviceable for Your will and for Your works,
do touch my brain, my soul and spirit with Your love
but more than just Your constant friendship and love

V
I ask that You like in the ancient beginning with both Adam and Eve
into me and the woman whom I do love so intensely and deep
that same first inviolate fiery and eternal love place
in our hearts, soul, spirit, brains and bodies,
to renew us in each aspect to in a way be untouched like them
that together we can be happy, intimate, intense
can live as a man and woman
that does truly understand and know each other
and do honour You in all things throughout our lives,

VI
do place even greater love in me my Lord, for the woman that I do love
that in her blood and bones
I will know my hart, soul and spirit untouchable
with happiness, tranquillity, bliss
and also in all pain and tears that life does bring.

[Reference: "Gebed van Eva" (Prayer of Eve)by Lina Spies.]

© Gert Strydom