Its so hard to be strong <br />when 'Strength' has ran away <br />to a place just out of reach <br />I pray 'it' will come back one day. <br /> <br />Heard some news that saddened me <br />prayed to God for 'strength' to come <br />and sit and and visit me on top <br />a mound of fear far away from psalms. <br /> <br />The fear it kept me up this night <br />of losing someone dear to me <br />someone who mere knowing was sick <br />it pulled at me as it shredded me. <br /> <br />My eyes close now as my fingers <br />found the familar well worn keys and... <br />as I drift off to sleep, I feel God <br />pick me up, then lay me down to sleep.<br /><br />Shelley L Baxter Stanley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/3-fear-flew-away/
