Poem/Prayer for Worship

Poem/Prayer for Worship by Thom Shuman
The Kittens
you promise to be with me when death takes my hand to lead me into life . . . but how will i know . . . when i sneak down the shadowed alleys, hoping to find that quick fix for my broken dreams. . . when I look up from the muddy bottom of desolation's ditch, wondering where are my friends who promised ('we'll be there!') to pull me out. . . when my addiction to every sales pitch i see and hear trips me up and i fall into greed's gutter . . . . . . that you are with me then and there? i only need to look behind me - and there are Goodness & Mercy, those two stray kittens who follow me wherever i go, wherever i am - just waiting for me to pick them up and welcome them into my heart. (c) 2007 Thom M. Shuman

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