If your world is growing dim

Because the sunshine lost its glow,

If your smile was for yesterday

The beauty gone

From memory you know.

 

Spirits Up

 

If the sky seems full of rain

And all you feel is pain,

If you feel too tired to face tomorrow

With all its demands

To ever smile again.

 

Spirits Up

 

If all around seems senseless
And you are filled with doubt and fear,

For you feel lost in a darkness

Sort of alone

And your eyes fill up with tears.

 

Spirits Up

 

If you can't find all those priceless gifts
That fill up every day,

For the burden that has descended

of endless struggle

Is carrying you away.

 

Spirits Up

 

When no trite words of platitudes

Will your heart appease,

Or restore the delightful wonders

Outside your window

That could have the where-with-all to please.

 

Spirits Up

 

For today I shall ask the Lord

To gently touch your special soul

As His loving heart of secrets

Is already prepared

To heal and make you whole.

 

Spirits Up

 

Because as you hold out open hands

And wait and keep on waiting

Expectantly

Priceless treasure will emerge

As a tender seed germinates tenderly within.

Hope perches in your soul,

as a bird

sweetly sings

ready to take wing.

 

Spirits Up

Soft Whispers from
Derry's Heart Poems
© 2004 used with permission
heartwhispers@iinet.net.au