A PRAYER FOR A STOUT HEART <br /> <br />How can I stake all my love, - <br />At the mercy of this fickle heart? <br />A heart that is delicate and fragile, <br />A heart that ignores the reasoning mind? ! <br />A heart that feels both love and hate, <br />Gets ensnared by beauty and trapped by fate? ! <br />A heart that changes its color and beat, <br />A heart which appears to be incomplete? <br />Faced with all those temptations of this world – <br />both spurious and pure, <br />How can my foolish heart distinguish and <br />endure? <br />So I prayed to the Lord to give me a heart that <br />is stout, <br />Like Richard the Lion Heart, both steadfast and <br />without doubt! <br />To wage a Crusade against all that is impure, <br />And abide by true love to forever endure! <br />- Raj Nandy <br />- New Delhi <br />- 20 Jan 09<br /><br />RAJ NANDY<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-prayer-for-a-stout-heart/
