Not Good Enough! What Should I Do? Poem by Denis Martindale

Not good enough! What should I do? For wisdom, I must pray.
For God is love! That much is true! He knows what I must say.
A parable can come tonight before I go to bed.
God has the words that I could write from those inside my head.
A dictionary proves a friend for every tale I tell.
My God has stories He can send if I wait for a spell.
And my computer saves the text as easy as can be.
So why am I to stay perplexed in writing poetry?
A verse or two or three or four. Are these too hard a task?
And maybe God will grant me more. If not too proud to ask.
And then the edits one-by-one and switched words here and there.
Until the time our poem's done in answer to my prayer.
Such that I praise God for His aid, His patient guiding hand.
A brand new poem gently made, His love to understand.


Denis Martindale. July 2020.