ALWAYS STAY

[MIRIAM JACOB]

ALWAYS STAY

My heart did hunger
for You tonight, in the
deep darkness of
my room...

For I felt the pains of
the loneliness that
most times, does
accompany a quiet gloom

I felt the harsh pains
of separation, because
I did not have that of
which I do daily need...

So I called out to you
with much fervent prayer,
to bring Your special love
that I need to me

But no answer found its way
to my hearts door, and
what was now locked
so securely away...

Would never be found
to begin to change,
the complexion of
my coming new day

For maybe I committed
a dreadful sin or was it
something that I forgot
to do or say...

For I only know that
tonight I am unhappy,
because You are so
far from where I do lay

Remember me this night
my only love, and do not
hesitate to send me a taste
of the heaven that lives

deep within Your well
of love, that I want with me
to always stay.


© Wendell A. Brown

From "What Always Stays"