What Can I Write.?

  

What can I write when sorrows hand lies heavy on my brow?

What can I write when all around are crying ‘Now, now, now’?

Where is the peace for which I long with all the clamour gone

Where are those soft green pastures that You said You will lead me on?

Have my prayers been heard? But nothing’s changed; things daily getting worse.

In health’s decline, old age’s range, too much for this old horse

The days I sought, kin round my knee, just never came to pass

I can’t even read a story for my voice can only rasp.

I expected a gracious genteel old age; a picturesque decline

Instead I’m fighting like a cat to save this life of mine

I’ll go here; No, there; try this or that; the ocean too far away

No paddling in the gentle waves. I can’t afford to stay.

This is a rich man’s paradise but it’s a poor man’s hell

No cake is passed round on my plate; do I want bread as well?

And yet I tell you all I want is to be in my Father’s will

So would you pray it will be so for I need your friendship still?

Wyn Barratt May 2013.