Poetry and prayers

Poetry and prayers
 
I pray for a chapbook of the heart
with a cache of prayers hidden in its folds.
 
I pray for poetry and prayers
free of words – silent as my Beloved;
 
poetry and prayers without a forethought
or strategy, requests or praise;
 
without beginning or end;
poetry and prayers
 
that reach the eyes and ears
of others only as an afterthought.
 
I pray to become a poem myself –
upright and earnest, an inspiration,
 
a living prayer that breaks its silence
only by repeating Your name.
 
O child of God, pray your poems are received
as prayers by your readers and by your Lord.