A Hope Swing In My Ring of Fire

Testing times beneath the grey sky Where in despair I cry Forever asking why Priceless prizes that in my life draw near My outstretched hand so eager Alongside trumpets so clear Long ago tore the dream I held so dear in a stream Where collaborators and benefactors working as a team Enjoined me to go on Praying for succor to visit my every bone To sustain, maintain and retain the stamina that I thought long gone In the midst of despair and disrepair Within no ace of a credible repair That I wailed it ain’t fair For sorrows to bring Into my thorny life obstacles and hurdles in a string Whose arrows in a row my flesh continue to sting Although with each ounce of pain prick unrest My body trembles and grumbles hoping for the best To withstand and endure the poignant test Sapping each iota of energy I dare save In a prayer litany wave As temptations in my ring of fire I shave Endeavouring from impending calamity to swerve As on tenterhooks my every nerve Prays to sustain the fortitude verve Assailing me till poisoned arrows let up As I gulped hope, succor and strength from the cup God in his omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence landed in my lap.