DAY THREE - SAVE ME

LENT: Read here to know more about Lent and the book I'm reading for this season

Here I was busy dying
wasting life with my "should-have-been"s

Here I was busy lying
about whether or not I'm living my dreams

And it's no use to compensate
with the worlds "not-so-greats"

Instead I need to find
the things that bring me peace inside

All the beauties
All the glories
that make me colorful and pretty.

And if I need to stand alone
To find out I'm-no-joke
Then take the chair from behind me

Give me purpose
Give me passion
Save me from this burning hell

Draw up, O Living water
Inside my thirsting Soul
And save me from my wayward self



-Angela Oliver Friday 24 Feb,2012

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