Random Leaf #309 precisely cut

Please, Lord—

just one more day.

Help me get through

just one more day.

Give me strength,

so I may keep my faith.

I know these trials

are part of Your design—

the grand scheme,

Your plan for me,

Your plans—

for me.

But—

I’m getting tired, Lord.

The pain is becoming

more and more unbearable.

I can feel myself

straying further and further away.

I know the folly of my acts,

but—

I’m drowning.

I’m suffocating.

Evil and sin have become common,

and I, too—unaware—follow.

Lord, why is the world

ever so cruel?

And I’m becoming like the world.

I wish to refuse, but—

I find it ever so hard not to be.

So please—

please!

I beg of You, Lord Almighty,

please, please—

help me keep my faith.

I am already too lost, too lonely,

though I have

a house to call home,

and friends to call company.

None of it matters

if I lose my faith.

So please, Lord,

I beg of You—

give me strength

to keep my faith.

Let me stay faithful.