Teach Me to Pray, to Praise

Teach me G~d to pray

 

to praise

The splendor of ripe fruit

   the wonder of a wrinkled leaf

the freedom to see
  

to feel
  

to breath

   to know hope

    

      and even to know grief.

Teach my lips blessing
   song

   and praise

when You renew Your time

   each night

   each dawn

so that my days will not repeat my yesterdays
to save my life from mere routine

   of all days gone.