Pray for us —
we acknowledge we are lost
and all the tools we normally would use
are overwhelmed
by current inundations

Pray for us —
we don’t believe that any simple help
from people, though their efforts
may be great,
can reach the need
we flounder in right now

Pray for us —
if we are to be saved
it has to be by something
that can’t go down with darkness,
something with enough light
to startle us awake from nightmares

Something that knows
the buoyant truth of us
was never buried
and will outshine
all the terror, loss, and pain.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 29, 2017