I’d like to have a guarantee

I’d like to know with certainty

What is the meaning of a life?

Why is there so much hope and strife?

Why bends the blind continuum

Of time into oblivion?

When nothing but the day remains

Can you adversity explain?

I seek to overcome my plight

I look for peace but dark delights

The table turns and you’re not here

I’m living in a world unsteered

Somehow I need to be made whole

Is there a way to heal my soul?

Prepare for me a future boon

A blessing I would importune

I want to know a truth that’s real

I want to know what lies conceal

Why beauty wears a lovely cast

And why the bloom just doesn’t last

I’m asking questions left and right

Please take my hand and hold it tight

That’s all I have to say for now

If you would only show me how

A benediction I implore

Make bright the shades that I adore

Show comfort to me as I seek

And clarify what lies oblique

Time teach me how to understand

And beauty temper hardship’s hand

May all my questions help me see

What hides behind these mysteries

And grant me what I need to know

A balm to soothe misfortune’s blow

And peace to ease my shame and fear

To rectify my trouble’s tears

A supplication for the one

Who stands encumbered and undone

Let not my prayer be made in vain

And light the way that you ordain

Instruct me in a wiser truth

And soften the mistakes of youth

Remove the burdens that impede

And to my bold request accede

Allow me answers when I call

And guide me as I rise and fall

That’s all I have to say for now

One question more is show me how?

Marcia Thornton

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