Ease the Pain

Ease the Pain is a prayer for God’s comfort in a time of grief. I hope this prayer-poem inspires you today.

Today’s post is the sixth one in the #write28days challenge, in which I’m participating during the month of February 2022. Today’s prompt is “Ease,” and here is my prayer/poem.

Ease the Pain

 

O Lord

ease the pain

that crushes my heart today

as I mourn my losses.

 

The pain of an empty

bottomless

hole

reaching so far back in time

I feel like I’m spiraling

downward

on a million step staircase

of heartache.

 

Pain triggered

by a thousand memories

linked together in spiderwebs

when a single song verse

decades-old photograph

Facebook reminder

certain angle light shaft

store shelf candy

specific spice scent

even a falling leaf

plucks at one strand

then all the webs

nearly break

with the weight.

 

Ease the pain, Jesus

the kind that threatens

to split my heart in two

presses like a lead vest

on my chest

burns the corners

of my tear-soaked eyes

tempting every nerve ending

to seek instant relief

from the exact wrong things.

 

Carry me through

this grief tunnel

which is both

hard and good

as I learn to embrace

inherent pain

in this necessary journey

toward acceptance.

 

But I ask you

O Comforter of my Soul

to ease the pain

just a bit

as I take each step forward

holding your nail-pierced hand

in mine.

 

Read all my posts in the Write 28 Days challenge HERE.

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