Endurance Prayer…

Oh dark of night, where restless thoughts quench peace that can’t sit still

And mounds of doubt engulf a heart and strength is stripped from will

Tangled sheets and pillows stained, damp with tears, torment and sweat;

The torrid knock, a beating chest, a rhythm filled with fret

 Canyon gaps from rim to rim where reach and grasp, fail to meet

And prayer sounds a muted horn too faint and incomplete

Patience strains and hopes unsure, now peaks the crack of light

With welled up eyes, scarlett streamed from loss of fight and might

Peace moans to dawn where new hopes bloom like gardens oh so green

And turn to where one leans again with faith towards the unseen…