A Prayer To God

God have mercy on me Even when I lie down and feel mean For this life is gone dim Be my light and shed your illuminating greatness on me. Lord, I love you, very very much I sometimes imagine you in your throne In that mighty, wondrous church And your eyes I see, So so further away like a match Never missing Always active Never giving up; always determined. Your hope for us hatches each day Afresh in each way and day Thank you God for creating me. Lord, even when those Nairobi streets become heated in the heat of the day And when people idle talk, idle sleep and Idle walk, cursing life itself Even when boys, like that boy near the Polo club Ever smiling Ever nagging Ever begging Drunk with drugs While so young and innocent Living a life so cruel, so painful, so dangerous While so young and innocent; God please, guard me well That I may live to love and share with all That using I as your faithful servant This life’s ugly picture May become the life’s natural goodness. Written between 2000-2003 Just the young thoughts of the young mind