a sunday's prayer

 

a sunday’s prayer

it is not what it appears

to be all peaceful inside

myself, the home 

tension builds within as

expenses are monitored 

resources depleted

to buy another home.

to move again

unintended, disrupting

discouraging  

.

except 

this next house

the keeper home

it’s best to be last.

my faith doesn’t waver

most of the time

i focus on what God has

done for me instead of

what i have not done for Him.

and so it is not as it appears 

ever, never

for me and probably for you 

i try to overcome 

stress 

wrong decisions 

spontaneous choices

i wonder how i missed 

God’s nudge…………

04/16/2023

The above poem was written as a response to NaPoWriMo's Day #16 prompt:

And now, without further ado, our optional daily prompt, once again pulled from our archives. Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like. For example, if you chose a whale as the topic of your poem, you might have lines like “It does not settle down in trees at night cooing/Nor will it fit in your hand.”         NaPoWriMo