Melody of Prayer

Each day I offer all, a prayer lifelong,
I turn my prayer into a melody,
my life’s not just a prayer, it is a song,
to be a melody for God and me.

To God Who gives me all, what shall I bring?
At least a life to offer Him in prayer,
like bards of old, my words I want to sing,
and so make bold the prayer just waiting there.

To serve the song, the words must somewhere start,
the lines aimed to delight and to console,
composed of prayers beginning in my heart,
born in the grateful wishes of my soul.

Though life shall end, my song shall not be done,
a melody, O Lord, that’s just begun.

                     by Pete Voelz          4/15/15