'Dear God' By William Forde.
'Dear God, they say you are good and all that is kind,
I do naughty things, yet you don't seem to mind.
You never stop me or turn me away
from temptation or sin or lead me astray.
It's as though you know I'm not really bad,
just like you know when I'm happy or sad.
Sometimes I think you are talking to me,
but when I look round there is nothing to see
except laughter and smile on another man's face,
the kindness of thought in another man's grace
as they share with their neighbour and grieve with their friend
and talk with the lonely and give, do not lend.
It is then that I see you as you're meant to be,
in him, her and us and in they, them and we.'
William Forde: Copyright October 2015.
'Dear God, they say you are good and all that is kind,
I do naughty things, yet you don't seem to mind.
You never stop me or turn me away
from temptation or sin or lead me astray.
It's as though you know I'm not really bad,
just like you know when I'm happy or sad.
Sometimes I think you are talking to me,
but when I look round there is nothing to see
except laughter and smile on another man's face,
the kindness of thought in another man's grace
as they share with their neighbour and grieve with their friend
and talk with the lonely and give, do not lend.
It is then that I see you as you're meant to be,
in him, her and us and in they, them and we.'
William Forde: Copyright October 2015.