Tangled

The only word that I can utter,

with the smallest strength that I can muster,

is a simple one word prayer,

A pool that’s deep but just one layer:

“Help”

And you know what it means,

You know my heart and all it’s seen,

You’ve been with me in darker places,

And you’ve shown yourself in strangers’ faces.

I won’t give up on faith in you,

So that includes my marriage, too.

What you have joined let none undo!

Protect us in the fire, too.

Bring us safely walking through,

Trusting with our eyes on you.

This prayers done much to settle my heart,

I’ve come such a long way from the start,

my pool doesn’t seem quite so deep,

And the mountain I’m climbing, not as steep.

So I guess my final prayer now,

before I stop this ranting on,

Is for a restful sleep somehow,

And hope to carry me to dawn.