In Your Brilliant Light, I Say This Solemn Prayer

O' lord help me fight these dark, troublesome midnight blues
these blacken currents that trouble my grieving heart
I want to be right and walk in a good man's shoes
Truly destroy, break evil completely apart.

O' lord give me support, the courage to fight well
may fight with my all, with my truest, faithful might
Send this wicked scourge back into unholy hell
open the way to bring in truth and Holy light.

O' lord I thank you for the strength to fight this war
may heart give me power to enemy defeat
I ask you my lord, be with me to cross that bar
Destroy this black wickedness, those that steal and cheat.

I pray you my lord, sees my willingness to serve.
I have the truth and in your light, the faithful nerve.

Robert J. Lindley, sonnet
Jan 10th, 1972,

New Note; I wrote this for a contest in the newspaper but never sent it in.
I was age 18 and doing a lot of composing back then.


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