Prayer

It was a prayer...I prayed,
Long years ago.
God saw the need was urgent,
Now...and so.

It all came true...and I,
Had almost passed it from my life.
Thinking it was not for me,
And I must ever live in strife.

Within my mind...perhaps,
I thought God had forgot.
That he...had only tried me in my faith,
For what I sought.

So diligently...I yearned it then,
For ever more...I longed.
I tried to reason in my mind,
Why God prolonged.

And as the years passed on,
My knowledge...it did grow.
Why couldn't my prayer be answered then,
And now...I know.


E.P. 1908 - 1989