The Unanswered Plea of Centuries
The Unanswered Plea of Centuries
You know
Just for once
Give me a God
Who understands
A God that answers
A God that heeds
And acts on prayers
A God that doesn’t pretend
With mysterious hog wash
And convenient coincidence
A God profound
In it’s helping hand
Who doesn’t leave us
Praying for centuries
For some kind of explanation
A God who’s goal
Is happiness and love
Who devises miracles to make it so
Who comprehends the human misery
And really, really
Knows what it means to be
Human
Just for once
Give me a God who doesn’t need praise
And the endless devotion of sin and hymns
Give me a God
Who listens instead
A benign benefactor
A protector of innocence
A smiling sympathy
For life’s encumberments
Who just wants us to be whole
Just for one aching, burning, longing, everlasting time
Give me a God who is sublime
And doesn’t hide behind
The pretence of some religion
Of the desperate need to believe
In some irrefutable truth
Give me a God
Who really cares
Who has a grip
And a compassion
For the overwhelming possibilities
Of the happy human
Just for once
Give me a God
Who actually gives a damn
Give me a God
With a real helping hand
And not some vague will to comprehend
And this
This has been the quiet plea
The unanswered prayer of man
For centuries
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2009
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