Free, Oh! free me <br />From fading spree... <br />What has utmost <br />Influence on me? <br />Deep well of shame <br />And disgrace are mine <br />Expanse infinite of praise <br />And grandeur are Thine... <br />Am I sprouting, flowering, <br />Fructifying inside? <br />Taking shelter in the wounds <br />Of Christ Crucified? <br /> <br />Search, Oh! search <br />For the Illuminant warm <br />Alien to changing purpose, <br />Portentous harm <br />Today's sobbing defeat - <br />A miraculous retreat - <br />From hazardous, fearsome fate <br />Worse than loss of life <br />Training needful for <br />The final triumph <br />Of earthly strife. <br />Do trials and insidious harm, <br />Craft me wise and free? <br />Free, Oh free me <br />From vanishing spree! <br /> <br />Keep, Oh! keep <br />What's passing in slavery <br />Not myself be its slave, <br />Bear duties bravely <br />Foreign to swamp frivolous, <br />Carnal for the sensualist <br />Craves continually pleasure <br />In death-dealing measure... <br />Am I, in truth, facing me? <br />Shutting the door to Thee? <br />And, can Thy grace be wanting <br />To one seeking Thee?<br /><br />Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-wreath-of-supplications-i/
